Lucas Gomes
Staff Software Engineer at Yelp
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLucas Gomes is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and ad products that scale; he led the piloting and productionization of an ad product now generating $18M ARR while mentoring a six-person squad. He combines product-focused engineering—roadmapping, delivery, pacing, reporting, and targeting—with cross-team advocacy across ad systems to ship measurable business impact. Earlier work spans SEM tooling at KAYAK (React/Redux front ends and Python/Django backends) and research-led engineering on wireless sensor networks and distributed orchestration at UFPE. A long-time FOSS contributor and two-time GSoC alum for KDE/Amarok, he still contributes to projects like Tomahawk and values durable, well-architected solutions born from hacker and open-source culture.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at Federal University of Pernambuco
Portuguese, English, German
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Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
build-system9
cmake9
dependency-management8
qt8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tomahawk-player/tomahawk
May 2012 - Sep 2012
Tomahawk, the multi-source music player
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on bug fixes and code refactoring within the Tomahawk music player project. Their work included resolving issues in the build process (`FindJreen.cmake`), improving the robustness of the ZeroConfAccount feature. Additionally, the user migrated files, streamlined dependency management by moving files to `libtomahawk`, and adjusted the codebase for headless environments.
multi-sourcemusicmusic-playerplayer
kayak/bandit-pouch
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Common React components and utilities
Contributions:1 review, 190 commits, 94 PRs in 2 years 8 months
reactjavascriptrequirejsreact-componentstypescript
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