Kassio Borges
Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
Netherlands
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Top SchoolKassio Borges is a seasoned Staff Backend Engineer with around 15 years of professional experience and nearly 20 years of hands-on software development across Ruby, Go, Elixir and Postgres. Based in the Netherlands, he has driven backend features and platform evolution at GitLab—working on Pages, import tooling and product planning—and previously led mobile backend teams at Zendesk. He combines deep technical craftsmanship (including contributions to popular open-source projects like highlight.js and several Vim/Elixir editor plugins) with a strong interest in people growth, project planning and team coaching. Detail-oriented and pragmatic, he has a track record of improving developer workflows and integrating language tooling and REPL support into editor ecosystems. Outside of core product work he contributes to OSS, enjoys leadership podcasts and brings a user-focused mindset to large-scale migration and CI/CD problems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology at Universidade Federal de GoiásTechnical School Telecommunications Technology/Technician, Technical School Telecommunications Technology/Technician at CEFETBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Information Technology at IFG
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
elixir10
vimscript10
plugin-development10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
erb10
ruby10
vim10
neovim10
regular-expression10
grammars10
repr10
replit10
syntax-highlighting10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-editors/vim-elixir
Sep 2013 - Aug 2019
Vim configuration files for Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:163 commits, 79 PRs, 260 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kassio primarily focused on improving the Elixir code style and indentation rules within the Vim configuration. They addressed issues related to code formatting for lists, tuples, and pipelines. Furthermore, the user contributed to the integration of the endwise plugin, which suggests involvement in code editing and development environment enhancements. The user demonstrated knowledge of Elixir's syntax and the Vim editor.
configuration-fileselixirvimvim-configuration
mileszs/ack.vim
Sep 2013 - Jun 2014
Vim plugin for the Perl module / CLI script 'ack'
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:100 commits, 1 comment in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kassio primarily focused on improving and maintaining the ack.vim Vim plugin. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to highlighting, particularly concerning quotes and double quotes. They also addressed issues related to mapping and wildignore configurations to ensure the plugin's proper functionality and compatibility with other tools. Furthermore, they contributed to the documentation to enhance user understanding.
perl-modulevimsiftstatuslineack
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