Lucas Lacosta
Senior Software Engineer at LightBox
Pompano Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Lacosta is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack applications and cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Pompano Beach, FL. He blends backend expertise in Kotlin, Java (Spring Boot) and Python with front-end work in React/React Native and mobile, and has repeatedly accelerated delivery through CI/CD automation on Jenkins, GitLab CI, OpenShift and AWS. His background includes maintaining enterprise middleware (WebSphere/WebLogic/JBoss), database work across MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and mentoring developers through formal training programs. Brazilian-born, American-raised and “Danish at heart,” he brings a global perspective, strong operational instincts from years as a technician/manager, and a habit of planning for future failure modes. Known for taking ownership end-to-end, he pairs pragmatic problem solving with curiosity-driven research to keep teams shipping resilient systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology and Computer Science at Florida State University
Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (18)
facebook10
testing9
javascript9
atom-editor8
prettify7
react6
beautify6
beautifier6
graphql5
monorepo5
indentation5
typescript5
bandwidth5
nextjs5
coffeescript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lgc13/LucasCosta_portfolio
Aug 2018 - Mar 2025
Welcome to Lucas Costa's Monorepo Portfolio!
Contributions:30 PRs, 623 pushes, 24 branches in 6 years 7 months
reactmonorepojavascriptgraphqlwelcome
lgc13/dog-app
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
React App that for playing and testing
Contributions:9 PRs, 31 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
reacttestingreduxreactjsplaying
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