Luiz Fonseca
Senior Software Engineer at Le Wagon
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolLuiz Fonseca is a senior software engineer and tech lead based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building mission-driven digital products for NGOs, crowdfunding platforms and startups. He blends infrastructure and backend expertise (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL) with hands-on frontend work (React, Next.js) and a strong practice in observability, testing and Agile delivery. Notable impact includes scaling civic platforms like Meu Rio to 100k members, contributing to Catarse (one of the world’s earliest open-source crowdfunding platforms), and creating community-driven projects such as Festival de Ideas and MateriaBrasil. As a senior engineer at Contentful and a lead teacher at Le Wagon, he mentors engineers, runs user-focused experiments and translates civic needs into resilient software. He brings an uncommon mix of civic-tech empathy and production-grade systems thinking—able to wire up a CCTV alerting splash page for activists and also design cloud-native APIs and edge functions.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
3rd Degree, Computer Science, 3rd Degree, Computer Science at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German
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Github Skills (17)
url-routing10
back-end-development10
rails10
model-view-controller10
ruby-on-rails10
git9
configuration-management9
codeigniter6
database6
heroku6
contentful6
php6
chartist6
wordpress6
contentful-management6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
catarse/catarse
Feb 2013 - Nov 2013
The first open source crowdfunding platform for creative projects in the world
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 8 months
Contributions summary:Luiz made several commits related to the Catarse crowdfunding platform. These commits include adding routes, modifying application configurations, and creating a model for channel profiles. The user also implemented modifications to the application layout and layout adjustments. The user's work focuses on the back-end configuration and structure of the application.
crowdfundingreactnextjs
LAB-Rio/pmus.com.br
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:63 commits, 16 pushes in 4 months
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