Lucas Mezêncio
Senior Software Engineer - Backend Infra at Jimdo
Lourinhã, Portugal
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Top SchoolLucas Mezêncio is a senior backend and infrastructure engineer with 16+ years building scalable web systems, modelling data, and managing Linux-based production environments. He blends hands-on coding with team leadership and mentoring, helping teams adopt Agile practices, SOLID principles, and reliable CI/CD workflows. Lucas has driven architectural decisions across security-critical domains like SSO/MFA at LastPass and helped refactor monoliths into microservices and feature environments in multiple companies. An active open-source contributor, he improved Laravel deployment recipes in the widely used Deployer project and added system-monitor and utility extensions in the Raycast ecosystem. Based in Lourinhã, Portugal, he pairs academic depth (Master’s studies in Computer Science) with a practical maker’s mindset—applying electronics and Arduino tinkering to inform pragmatic engineering. He is also an advocate for ethical technology and social justice, bringing those values into team culture and technical choices.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Tecnologia em Banco de Dados Ciência da Computação, Tecnologia em Banco de Dados Ciência da Computação at Faculdade PitágorasFull Stack Web Developer Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree at UdacityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at ISTECEstácio de Sá University
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
deploying10
laravel-mix10
typescript10
laravel10
system-monitoring10
php10
typescript-types10
macos10
webextension10
typescripts10
react10
automation9
nodejs9
automations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 30 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas made significant contributions to the "system-monitor" extension, which is part of the larger "raycast/extensions" repository. Their work included implementing new features like "uptime" for the CPU monitor and time on battery for the power monitor. They also refactored the memory monitor to show the total amount of memory and usage, as well as fixing the CPU usage. The user also developed the HTTP.cat extension, expanding functionality within the Raycast ecosystem.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
deployphp/deployer
May 2017 - May 2017
The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the `recipe/laravel.php` file, focusing on integrating Laravel-specific tasks within the Deployer deployment tool. Their work involved creating and modifying tasks to manage Laravel versions, running artisan commands like `storage:link`, and ensuring compatibility with different Laravel versions. They also implemented logic to check Laravel versions before executing certain commands, thus enhancing the deployment process and improving its robustness.
continuous-deploymentboxdeploymentdeployphp
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