Luís Almeida
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolLuís Almeida is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 14 years of experience building polished user interfaces and front-end infrastructure, primarily at Zendesk where he progressed from Software Engineer to senior technical leadership. He specializes in responsive, user-centric front-end engineering and has a history of shipping lightweight, practical open-source tools—like the unveil lazy-loading plugin and the Filtrify tag filtering UI—that improve performance and usability. Comfortable across the full stack from freelance roots to enterprise scale, he combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and architectural guidance. Notably, his open-source work shows a focus on pragmatic optimizations (retina support, documentation quality) that reveal an attention to real-world developer and user needs.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Universidade de Aveiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
html10
css10
filtering10
javascript10
lazy-loading10
front-end-development10
jquery10
filter10
lazyload10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
responsive-design7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
luis-almeida/filtrify
Mar 2012 - Apr 2013
Beautiful advanced tag filtering with HTML5 and jQuery
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Luís primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Filtrify project. Their commits focused on building and modifying the user interface, creating the index page and adding the website. The commits demonstrate the implementation of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create a visually appealing and functional tag filtering interface. The user's work included integrating with supporting libraries and frameworks.
javascriptfilteringhtml5jquery
luis-almeida/unveil
Apr 2012 - Jun 2014
A very lightweight jQuery plugin to lazy load images
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Luís primarily focused on developing and maintaining the front-end aspects of the "unveil" plugin, a lightweight jQuery plugin for lazy loading images. Contributions include implementing the core functionality for lazy loading, adding support for retina displays, and updating the documentation. The user also addressed documentation errors and enhanced the plugin's usability, demonstrating a commitment to improving the user experience.
javascriptjquery-pluginjquerylazy-load
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