Miguel Neto
Software Engineer at igual
Paraná, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarMiguel Neto is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building secure, full-stack web applications from Paraná, Brazil. He has strong back-end and security expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Automattic’s widely used Jetpack (VaultPress and WAF modules) where he added WAF packaging, logging, cron-driven rule updates and database block logging—while also improving front-end UX in wp-calypso. His career spans fintech and enterprise systems at EBANX and HSBC to modern product teams at Automattic and startups, with work across Node.js, Django, Java, and NoSQL. A functional-programming enthusiast and amateur musician, he brings curiosity and a hacker’s attention to detail when hardening systems and clarifying user-facing security information.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
waf10
wordpress10
css10
ui-design10
plugin10
security10
uid10
php10
front-end-development10
html10
react10
mysql9
calypso9
mysql-database9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 19 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the front-end components and user interface of the WordPress.com platform. Their work included improving the Jetpack Scan feature, with a focus on enhancing the threat display and user interaction through new dialogs, UI layout fixes, and informative messages. They modified existing components and implemented changes to present database threat information more effectively. The user also addressed specific rendering issues and added descriptions for features related to the 'edit' fixers within the Jetpack Scan feature.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
Automattic/jetpack
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 141 reviews, 63 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Miguel's contributions primarily involve back-end modifications and security enhancements within the Jetpack plugin, specifically focusing on the VaultPress and WAF (Web Application Firewall) modules. They addressed obsolete hotfixes, added changelogs, introduced a WAF package, and implemented logging for blocked requests. The user also integrated a cron job for regularly updating WAF rules and made database-related changes to save block log information.
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