Lucas Dos Santos
Distinguished Engineer at Nubank
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Dos Santos is a Distinguished Engineer based in São Paulo with 17 years of experience building resilient backend systems and leading technical strategy at Nubank. He progressed from software engineer to principal and now distinguished engineer, blending deep Java expertise with practical architecture and mentoring across large-scale financial systems. A longtime contributor to the Java ecosystem, he improved core behavior and localization in the VRaptor4 MVC framework, signaling a focus on robustness and internationalization. Comfortable as an instructor and conference speaker earlier in his career, he pairs hands-on coding with clear technical communication. Collected experience across startups, consultancies and major consumer platforms gives him a pragmatic approach to solving hard problems under real-world constraints.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Technician Information Technology, Technician Information Technology at ETEC São PauloBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
javas10
web-framework10
java10
exception-handling9
localization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
caelum/vraptor4
May 2013 - Jan 2015
A web MVC action-based framework, on top of CDI, for fast and maintainable Java development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to improving the VRaptor4 framework's core functionality. Their commits focused on refactoring and enhancing several converter classes, including those for locale-based primitives and Joda Time objects. These changes involved modifying how exceptions were handled and introducing new message-handling mechanisms within the framework. The user's work directly impacted the framework's robustness and localization capabilities.
java-developmentframeworkcdiweb-mvcon-top
caelum/selenium-dsl
May 2009 - Sep 2010
A DSL for working with Selenium and Java
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 4 months
javadslselenium
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