Lucas Desouza
Principal Software Engineer at Thrivent
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Desouza is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area with five years of formal experience and a decade-plus track record of progressive roles at American Airlines, Allstate, and now Thrivent. He specializes in developer experience and platform engineering—driving backend improvements, developer tooling, and scalable infrastructure that help teams ship reliably. Lucas has contributed to the popular open-source Backstage project, improving catalog backend logic and Kubernetes resource discovery, reflecting a focus on developer portals and cloud-native integrations. Known for blending hands-on refactors with platform-level thinking, he often surfaces subtle architectural fixes (like precise location-matching and config hygiene) that reduce operational friction. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational pain points into pragmatic, long-lived platform solutions.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Tryinity High School
Github Skills (9)
backstage10
backend10
catalog10
typescript-types9
kubernetes-pods9
typescript9
typescripts9
configuration-management9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the backend functionalities of the Backstage project. Their work involved refactoring catalog rules, updating configuration files, and improving the logic for Kubernetes resource fetching. The user also addressed issues related to matching locations using patterns and exact matches. The user's commits focused on enhancing the catalog backend's functionality and improving the overall system architecture for managing software components.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
Lucas-Desouza/semver-springboot
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 8 days
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