Juan Morais
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Morais is a Senior Software Engineer based in Auckland with 11 years building full‑stack products across games, fintech, media streaming, and web3. He enjoys JavaScript, Elixir, and PostgreSQL, and has a track record of shipping scalable APIs, performance optimisations (e.g., cutting ZED Run load times by 66%), and revenue-driving integrations like ASX support at Sharesies. Juan leads cross-disciplinary projects—from NFT wardrobe systems that propagate profile-picture updates to game LiveOps reaching millions of players—and frequently toggles between front-end and backend responsibilities to match product needs. He contributes to notable open-source work such as enhancing the DeckDeckGo presentation editor with new split-slide functionality and refactors for clarity. Comfortable interfacing with partners and clients, he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship and developer tooling improvements. His background in game programming and data engineering gives him a practical edge in performance-sensitive, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Media Design School at Strayer
Spanish, German, English
Stackoverflow
79reputation
8kreached
7answers
2questions
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript10
web-components10
stencil10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
editor9
editors9
pwapp9
ui-design8
slide8
html7
csv6
data-analysis6
flask6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
deckgo/deckdeckgo
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
The web open source editor for presentations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 29 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on enhancing the presentation editor's features. They implemented vertical split functionality for slides, modifying components and adding new slide templates in the studio application. The changes included modifying the `deckgo-slide-split` component and associated styling. Further work involved adapting the studio's UI to incorporate the new split feature and refactoring existing code for better readability.
reactpwa-appswysiwygjavascriptrich-text-editor
timrodz/racing-leaderboards
Nov 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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