Lucas Bento
Staff Engineer at Bitvavo
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolLucas Bento is a Staff Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in front-end and mobile engineering, currently shaping Bitvavo’s product and platform work from São Paulo. He has a rare blend of hands-on delivery and people leadership, having scaled Bitvavo’s front-end organization from 6 to 30 engineers while owning major initiatives like Bitvavo Pro Web and Mobile. Lucas moves fluidly between IC and management roles, shipping high-impact solutions quickly—once porting Grafana Faro observability to React Native in two weeks. His background includes building AI-driven mobile experiences for consumer brands, modernizing micro-frontend architectures under hardware constraints, and improving developer tooling for the React Native ecosystem. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the React Native CLI, upgrade-helper UI, and CI/CD workflows, demonstrating attention to DX as well as user-facing polish. Mentoring experience at Udacity and cross-company technical leadership underline his focus on coaching, performance optimization, and getting things done.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Analysis and Systems Development Information Technology, Analysis and Systems Development Information Technology at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-community/upgrade-helper
May 2019 - Jul 2022
⚛️ A web tool to support React Native developers in upgrading their apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 494 commits, 156 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the development of the React Native upgrade helper web tool. Their work involved implementing UI components using Ant Design (antd) and creating the structure for displaying upgrade instructions. They also focused on modifying the application's style imports and adding a component for rendering markdown instructions. They integrated with a new version selector and designed the user interface for the upgrade guide.
web-toolreactreact-nativeupgrade-toolrn-diff-purge
react-native-community/cli
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
The React Native Community CLI - command line tools to help you build RN apps
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas's contributions primarily focused on improving the React Native CLI tool for iOS and Android development. They implemented features such as displaying help information, opening Metro in the correct terminal, and automatically installing pods during project initialization. The user also addressed bugs related to iOS device builds and improved the user experience by checking for `ios-deploy` installation before proceeding with the build and providing better CocoaPods installation prompts.
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