José Malaquias
Professor at UFOP
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Malaquias is a seasoned computer science professor at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto with over 12 years of documented professional experience and a research-focused academic career dating back to the 1990s. He holds advanced degrees from ITA and Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, including a Doctor of Science in Computer Science, and bridges theory with practical systems work. Beyond teaching and research, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as the widely used Awesome window manager, where he has enhanced core libraries and menubar behavior to better support XDG directories and theming. His background in electrical engineering and mathematics informs a pragmatic approach to systems-level programming and tooling. Colleagues and students benefit from his depth across algorithms, file-system interactions, and user-facing configuration features. He is based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and combines long-term academic mentorship with active hands-on development in open-source software.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Science, Computer Science, Doctor of Science, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de UberlândiaMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Github Skills (6)
lua10
awesomewm10
window-manager10
c119
c179
xorg9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
awesomeWM/awesome
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
awesome window manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:José contributed to the Awesome window manager by adding new functions and functionalities to the core libraries. Their work involved creating string manipulation functions, table mapping utilities, and file system interactions related to XDG directories. They also updated the menubar code to consider XDG data directories for application loading. Furthermore, they added an option for menu font in theme settings.
window-managerluacxorg
romildo/tiger-ocaml
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
A compiler for the Tiger programming language targetting LLVM and implemented in OCaml
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
compilerllvmocamlprogramming-language
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