Luiz Nickel
Senior Software Engineer at VTEX
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolLuiz Nickel is a Principal Software Engineer and founder with 11 years of experience modernizing legacy web stacks and building high-performance frontend platforms. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript and React, has led migrations from legacy frameworks to Next.js and SvelteKit, and architected mission-critical integrations and payment systems used by enterprise clients. As Head of Engineering at Sizebay and Principal at Altura, he scaled teams, introduced engineering standards (ADRs, dev pipelines) and improved cross-functional collaboration while remaining hands-on in performance and infra work on AWS. A practical generalist and mentor, Luiz contributes open-source tooling from his GitHub and is known for keeping complex web apps under 100KB through careful bundling and modular design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Wyden
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (138)
xmlhttprequest10
bash10
hyper10
http-client10
declarative10
javascript10
linux10
browser10
html10
shell10
cli10
ajax10
typescript10
macos10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sizebay/frontend-challenge
Jul 2021 - Apr 2024
Do you have what it takes to become a Sizebay Developer and Krunker Player?
Contributions:32 reviews, 25 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
krunkertakesjavascripttypescriptplayer
vaporwavie/vitordicas
Apr 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 11 months
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