Leonardo Santos
Software Engineer at PayPal
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLeonardo Santos is a software engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building web applications across front-end and full-stack roles, now contributing at PayPal after impactful stints at Venmo and several Brazilian digital agencies. He specializes in JavaScript ecosystems—Node.js, React, Next.js and GraphQL—and blends pragmatic problem-solving with strong collaboration and communication skills. Leonardo has maintained open-source roots, including updating core dependencies in a popular jQuery select plugin to improve compatibility and longevity. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he pairs steady delivery of practical, efficient solutions with a continual appetite for emerging web trends and clean, maintainable code.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Centro Universitário Internacional UNINTER
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (2)
javascript10
jquery10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lcdsantos/jQuery-Selectric
Apr 2012 - Apr 2018
jQuery plugin for easy manipulation and customization of HTML selects
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 254 commits, 43 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Leonardo's commits focused on updating the jQuery version to 1.7.2, as evidenced by the code changes in the `js/jquery.min.js` file. The user's work included updating the core JavaScript library that the jQuery plugin relies on. These changes would improve the plugin's functionality and compatibility.
manipulationjqueryjavascriptjquery-plugincustomization
lcdsantos/lcdsantos.github.io
Sep 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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