Lucas Zawacki is a technical leader and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building web conferencing systems and porting Windows applications to Linux. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he leads the Mconf Live team and has deep expertise in C/C++ and Unix/Linux environments alongside extensive Ruby on Rails web development. A longtime contributor to BigBlueButton, he implemented whiteboard UI features using CoffeeScript and Raphael.js, blending front-end polish with systems-level understanding. His early work with the Wine Project via Google Summer of Code and robotics AI at UFRGS show a practical knack for low-level input handling and real-time systems. Colleagues rely on him for bridging legacy Windows functionality into Linux production environments while keeping user-facing collaboration features robust and responsive.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel em Ciência da Computação, Computer Software Engineering, Bacharel em Ciência da Computação, Computer Software Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul / UFRGS
Contributions:28 reviews, 331 commits, 112 PRs in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on developing features for the whiteboard functionality, contributing to the user interface of the open source web conferencing system. They implemented features for drawing shapes on the whiteboard, specifically focusing on triangles, lines, and ellipses. The commits demonstrate work on the client-side using CoffeeScript for various whiteboard model implementations, which included interactions with the Raphael.js library.
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
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