Luiz Kowalski
Senior Software Engineer at Traux
Greater Goiania Brazil
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Top SchoolLuiz Kowalski is a Senior Software Engineer based in Greater Goiânia, Brazil, with over a decade of professional experience building backend systems and scaling online ticketing and video platforms. He has driven payment and billing transformations, designed microservices for geospatial data, and led API and analytics work for high-volume event and media products. At Automattic he helped ship AI features and real-time usage metering for Jetpack—contributing to VideoPress improvements and image/audio tooling used by millions of WordPress sites. Luiz combines hands-on coding with product-minded ownership, from risk-analysis hooks for ticket purchases to integrating transactional workflows and analytics for SaaS platforms. He mentors peers, promotes engineering best practices like robust PR processes, and favors pragmatic rewrites (Next.js/NestJS) when they reduce long-term friction. Always curious, he blends legacy-stack fluency (LAMP) with modern cloud-native service design and measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Goiás
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (8)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
api10
apidoc10
react9
javascript9
phpunit8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:542 reviews, 73 commits, 388 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Luiz primarily focused on improving the VideoPress features within the Jetpack plugin. They implemented new endpoints for video stats and playback tokens, refactored existing code, and fixed bugs related to video caption saving and visibility. Their work involved modifying various components and API endpoints to integrate with the VideoPress service and enhance the user experience. The user also contributed to improving the UI of the VideoPress section.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
lhkowalski/cms
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:195 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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