Melissa Mendonça
Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Quansight
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Mendonça is a Senior Developer Experience Engineer at Quansight with 12 years of experience bridging applied mathematics and open source software. A former university professor with a PhD in optimization, she brings deep expertise in numerical linear algebra, scientific computing and Fortran to developer tooling and community building. She has significantly improved documentation and contributor workflows for flagship projects like NumPy, Matplotlib and SciPy, making complex numerical libraries more accessible to users and contributors. Passionate about education and collaboration, she combines academic rigor with practical engineering to streamline onboarding and reproducible research. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, she is also a longtime LaTeX and free-software enthusiast who quietly shapes how scientific software communicates its ideas.
12 years of coding experience
Bacharelado, Matemática e Computação Científica, Bacharelado, Matemática e Computação Científica at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaDoutorado, Otimização, Sob supervisão de Philippe Toint, Doutorado, Otimização, Sob supervisão de Philippe Toint at Université de Namur
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
napi10
pari10
visualization10
restructuredtext10
visualizations10
n10
python10
sphinx10
documentation10
numpy10
matplotlib10
git8
data-visualization4
data-visualisation4
data-visualizations4
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
numpy/numpy
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:248 reviews, 160 commits, 153 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily contributed to the documentation of the NumPy project. Their work involved adding and modifying documentation for various aspects of the library, including tutorials on masked arrays, improving existing documentation, and adding examples. The user also updated the documentation to reflect the new build system and implemented improvements for the presentation and structure of the content.
pythonscientific-computingnumpy
scipy/scipy
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
SciPy library main repository
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:184 reviews, 18 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Melissa primarily contributed to the documentation of the SciPy library. Their commits focused on improving the clarity and organization of the documentation, including updating the developer setup guides. These changes involved fixing broken links, removing redundant installation instructions, and adding new documentation contribution guidelines. The user also revamped contributor setup guides.
scipypythonscientific-computing
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