Leonardo Santiago
Software Engineer at Wendy's
Piauí, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Santiago is a software engineer with five years of professional experience building front-end and full-stack solutions, currently working at Navalia while contracting for Wendy's. He brings a problem-solving mindset honed during an Electrical Engineering degree and scholarship work at UFPI, translating engineering rigor into reliable software delivery. At Codeminer42 and as an open-source contributor, he improved accessibility and customization in the popular Grommet React framework—enhancing Avatar, DateInput, and Heading components while adding tests and docs. His background includes contract roles for GoDaddy, Umbrella Network, and other firms, reflecting adaptability across products and teams. Curious and communicative by nature, he combines a drive for continuous learning with practical experience shipping user-focused UI improvements. Based in Piauí, Brazil, he pairs regional roots with contributions to widely used open-source UI tooling.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal do Piauí
Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
grommet10
react10
accessibilityservice9
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
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system9
acc9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grommet/grommet
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 39 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Leonardo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and customizability of the "Avatar" component within the Grommet framework. They addressed issues related to text size, implementing new properties and theming approaches to provide better user control. Additionally, the user contributed to fixing calendar updates within the "DateInput" component, and added a 'fill' property to the "Heading" component, updating related documentation, storybook examples, and tests.
babelreactmodularityjavascripta11y
umbrella-network/taurus
Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
Front-End for Block Explorer
Contributions:4 reviews, 22 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 1 month
front-endblockchainblock-explorerexplorer
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