Luiz Ribeiro is a software engineer with 17 years of experience based in the New York City area, currently building software at Meta. He brings deep computer science fundamentals—algorithms and data structures—paired with hands-on embedded systems and IoT experience, evidenced by notable contributions to the widely used qmk_firmware project (ps2avrGB, V-USB integration, and RGB over I2C). His background spans research and tooling, from a weighted-majority voting study detecting concept drift to extending Gephi with Python scripting during Google Summer of Code. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends low-level firmware problem-solving with scalable software practices learned across long-term industry work.
17 years of coding experience
BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Federal University of Technology - Parana
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Luiz primarily contributed to the keyboard firmware, focusing on the ps2avrGB project. Their work included integrating the V-USB protocol, simplifying and polishing code within the ps2avrGB directory, and adding support for RGB lighting through I2C communication. The user also addressed a V-USB bug on Windows 10 and made improvements to the default keymap configuration.
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