Luiza Pagliari is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications and collaborative tools from São Paulo. She has deep practical expertise across Java, Ruby on Rails, Node/Typescript, React/Next.js and Go, and a track record of shipping scalable products at startups and larger teams alike. As an early engineer at Theta she helped build a real-time collaborative whiteboard using Replicache and Ably, and her open-source contributions include front- and back-end improvements to the popular Etherpad-lite project, improving mobile UI, exports and test coverage. Luiza has led technical squads to automate operations and integrate external services, and she pairs hands-on coding with DevOps and product-oriented decision making. Her background includes advanced academic training in software engineering (UFRGS) and a long history of cross-functional roles from ThoughtWorks to corporate teams, which gives her a rare blend of architectural perspective and implementation focus. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who elevates collaboration tech through thoughtful attention to UX, testing and deployment.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade de São Paulo / USP
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul / UFRGS
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:83 commits, 98 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Luiza primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end of Etherpad-lite, addressing bugs and implementing new features. They fixed UI issues related to mobile devices, improving the user experience. Moreover, they modified back-end code to enhance the export functionality and handle various attribute storage methods. Additionally, they improved the testing framework for the project.
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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