Luiz Rocha
Sr. Software Engineer at Pebl
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLuiz Rocha is a Full Stack Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems that handle high concurrency, currently focused on AWS, Node.js/NestJS, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes. He pairs hands-on engineering with a strong emphasis on code quality and scalable architectures to accelerate product evolution and customer value. His background spans full-stack product development, CI/CD and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Jenkins and Redis, plus prior work with GraphQL/Relay and various front-end frameworks. Luiz contributes to open source—improving tests and robustness in the well-known OpenRocket project—and maintains a GitHub profile with practical fixes that enhance developer experience. He also shares knowledge publicly through a Fullstack Node.js/GraphQL/Relay video challenge series and draws on academic experience in embedded systems and inertial sensor data processing from USP and Nottingham. Based in São Carlos, Brazil, he blends electrical engineering roots with modern cloud-native software practices, often focusing on reliability under load.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Renewable Energy Systems Engineering at University of NottinghamEngenharia Elétrica ênfase em Sistemas de energia e automação, Engenharia Elétrica ênfase em Sistemas de energia e automação at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (11)
unit-testing10
javas10
java10
aerospace10
modeling9
testing9
debug9
test-framework9
simulations9
simulation9
documentation8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openrocket/openrocket
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Model-rocketry aerodynamics and trajectory simulation software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 22 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Luiz primarily focused on improving the robustness of the unit testing framework within the OpenRocket project. They addressed false-negative test cases related to locale settings and decimal formatting, demonstrating a deep understanding of the software's internal workings. The user also contributed to refactoring and documentation efforts in the aerodynamics package, specifically improving code clarity and adding detailed explanations for developers. Additionally, the user fixed a build bug associated with non-ASCII characters, enhancing the overall stability of the project.
pythonopenrocketsimulationdiscrete-event-simulationsimulator
BigsonLvrocha/relay-fullstack-code-challenge
Feb 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:203 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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