Mateus Junges
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolMateus Junges is a senior software engineer from Paraná, Brazil with 8+ years building scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Tighten and The Interaction Design Foundation. He specializes in PHP and Laravel, has a BSc in Computer Engineering and is pursuing an MSc in Computational Security, blending strong engineering with security-aware thinking. Mateus has designed large-scale payment platforms, CI/CD pipelines and microservices on GCP and Kubernetes, and optimized high-traffic systems such as a toll-management platform serving 1.5M monthly users. An active open-source maintainer, he created Laravel Kafka and Trackable Jobs and has contributed improvements and IDE-friendly docblocks to the core Laravel framework. He combines hands-on problem solving—adding tests, fixing subtle bugs and enhancing developer experience—with a track record of shipping reliable, well-documented backend features. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who values clean architecture, performance tuning and practical OSS collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor - BSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor - BSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Ponta GrossaMaster - MSc in Computer Engineering, Computational Security, Master - MSc in Computer Engineering, Computational Security at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
documentation10
laravel-mix10
eloquent6
github6
database6
phpunit6
react6
mysql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 reviews, 11 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mateus primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by adding and modifying code related to documentation and testing. They added methods to facade doc blocks for improved IDE auto-completion, removed unnecessary documentation, and added tests for new rules. They also fixed bugs, such as fixing array to string conversion and clearing recorded calls. These contributions improved code quality, documentation and testing of the framework.
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illuminate/support
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
[READ ONLY] Subtree split of the Illuminate Support component (see laravel/framework)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mateus primarily contributed to the improvement of the Laravel framework's support component. Their work involved enhancing the documentation, specifically adding and modifying method docblocks within facade classes like `Route`, `Queue`, `Event`, and `Hash`, for IDE auto-completion. They also focused on implementing functionality for faking jobs, events and queues by adding `except` method in `BusFake`, `EventFake`, and `QueueFake` classes, increasing flexibility. Moreover, the user addressed docblock inconsistencies and added missing documentation.
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