Luiz Gonzaga dos Santos Filho
Engineering Manager at Coursera
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarLuiz Gonzaga dos Santos Filho is an Engineering Manager based in Vancouver with 14 years of experience leading software teams and shipping reliable, developer-focused tooling. He blends hands-on full‑stack development skills with people leadership, frequently diving into configuration and developer experience improvements—evidenced by contributions to the popular skwp/dotfiles project where he enhanced Vim, Zsh and plugin setups for faster, more productive workflows. Luiz is comfortable spanning infrastructure, editor tooling and application delivery, and he prioritizes pragmatic solutions that boost team velocity and code quality. As a senior manager, he pairs mentoring and process refinement with an engineer’s attention to ergonomics, often advocating for small productivity wins that compound across teams.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
143reputation
23kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (18)
vimscript10
configuration-management10
text-editing10
zsh10
git9
shell8
sh8
script8
scripting8
google-drive-api6
google-sheets6
vim6
nodejs6
meteor6
bcrypt6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
skwp/dotfiles
Jan 2013 - Mar 2021
YADR - The best vim,git,zsh plugins and the cleanest vimrc you've ever seen
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 68 commits, 47 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Luiz primarily contributed to the configuration and customization of a Vim environment, as evidenced by modifications to `.vimrc`, plugin settings, and Zsh configuration files. Their work involved improving the user experience through features like auto-completion, search enhancements, and key mappings. They also added and reorganized Vundle bundles for improved Vim plugin management.
vimeverzsh-pluginsneovimvimrc
DataEasy/slack-cutter
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:151 commits, 3 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 2 months
slackcutting
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