Lucas Mazza is a Senior Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 16 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms using Elixir and Ruby. He has a strong track record bootstrapping products, extracting services from monoliths, and improving developer experience through automation, tooling and monitoring. At companies from startups to scale-ups he’s led backend and platform efforts—migrating large datasets, implementing SSO/2FA, and designing notification and integration systems. An active OSS contributor, Lucas has improved core Rails tooling (Sprockets, Devise, Simple Form) and even enhanced Ruby/ERB support in highlight.js, showing attention to both developer ergonomics and end-user features. Notably, he combines hands-on feature work with operational leadership, having introduced Elixir into legacy Rails environments and driven deployments on Kubernetes and GCP.
Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:70 commits, 22 PRs, 38 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the simple_form gem, a Rails form builder. Their work focused on enhancing the generator functionality, including adding options for Bootstrap integration and setting default wrapper configurations. They also addressed bugs in the generator tests and made updates to existing components, ensuring the library's continued compatibility and feature set. Additionally, the user has added a significant level of collection translation options.
Ruby on Rails unobtrusive scripting adapter for jQuery
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years
Contributions summary:Lucas's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the test suite for the jquery-ujs library. They focused on adding and modifying test cases, including those related to `data-disable`, `data-confirm`, and remote form submissions. Furthermore, the user addressed test suite organization and made improvements to test coverage and reliability by correcting assertion counts.
ruby-on-railsscriptingunobtrusivejqueryrails
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