Mateus Melchiades
Visiting Student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMateus Melchiades is a computer scientist and M.Sc. student specializing in reinforcement learning and NLP, currently a visiting student at VUB AI Lab and a back-end developer at SAP with five years of hands-on experience. He has transitioned from research roles at Unisinos into industry, blending applied RL research with production backend engineering. His open-source contributions include adding and refining Vala syntax support for the high-profile nvim-treesitter project, showing attention to language parsing and tooling. Based in Brussels, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic software delivery and a knack for bridging research prototypes into maintainable backend systems.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Applied Computing, Master of Science - MS Applied Computing at UnisinosTechnician in Electronics Electronics, Technician in Electronics Electronics at Fundação Escola Técnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha
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Github Skills (9)
neovim10
vala10
tree-sitter10
syntax-highlighting10
swift6
macos6
append6
swiftui6
appkit6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mateus primarily contributed to the Vala language support within the Neovim Treesitter configuration project. Their work involved creating and refining the Vala syntax highlighting rules by modifying the highlights.scm files. This included initial language support, adding punctuation, and reflecting upstream refactoring, demonstrating a focus on syntax parsing and code analysis.
nvim-treesitterluatreesittertree-sittervim
matbme/JABS.nvim
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Just Another Buffer Switcher for Neovim
Contributions:78 commits, 25 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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