Luiz Alves
Advisory Solutions Architect - Cloud Partners at Leroy Merlin
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolLuiz Alves is an experienced software engineer and solutions architect with over 13 years in commercial roles and two decades of hands-on engineering experience. Based in Madrid, he now advises cloud partners at MongoDB, having progressed from senior solutions architect to advisory architect while helping large customers adopt cloud-native data platforms. He has led engineering and product teams across Europe at ADEO and Leroy Merlin, combining technical leadership with product ownership and delivery management. An active open-source contributor to notable PHP and JS projects, his work on Laravel packages (Confide, Entrust) and the twig.js library reflects deep backend expertise in authentication, RBAC, and templating internals. Luiz is comfortable bridging low-level code improvements and high-level architectural strategy, and he brings a practical focus on testability and maintainability informed by frequent refactors and tooling-driven contributions. His cross-functional background and long-term commitment to improving developer-facing libraries make him adept at translating complex requirements into reliable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Analista de Sistemas, Análise e desenvolvimento de sistemas, Analista de Sistemas, Análise e desenvolvimento de sistemas at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
English, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (16)
management10
php10
javascript10
manage10
namespaces10
twig10
mockery10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
testing10
object-oriented-programming9
eloquent9
json9
unit-testing8
laravel-routing6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Zizaco/confide
Jan 2013 - Jul 2015
Confide is a authentication solution for Laravel 4
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:382 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luiz made a series of commits focused on the internal workings of the application, specifically with the use of Mockery to generate mock objects. The commits involved code generation, particularly for mock objects and their interactions within the Laravel framework, as well as refactoring for testing and improved login/logout handling. The changes also include updates to language files and user model attributes.
laravelphpauthentication
Zizaco/entrust
Feb 2013 - Nov 2017
Role-based Permissions for Laravel 5
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 39 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Luiz primarily focused on enhancing the `zizaco/entrust` repository, a role-based permissions system for Laravel 5. Their contributions involved modifying core classes, specifically `EntrustRole`, to include serialization and deserialization of permissions. They also added a `HasRole` trait and implemented route filtering functionalities for role and permission management. These changes directly relate to the core functionality of the package, providing features for managing user roles and permissions within a Laravel application.
role-basedphppermissionslaravel-5laravel
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