Nara Andrade
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolNara Andrade is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently based in Pernambuco, Brazil, and working at Automattic. She excels in front-end engineering, having improved UX and component reliability across well-known open-source projects like Material Design Lite and AlloyUI, and contributed polish to Liferay’s calendar and scheduler interfaces. At Liferay she progressed from intern to team lead, blending hands-on development, code reviews, and mentorship while shipping UI-focused fixes and accessibility-minded behaviors. Her background includes native Android development and project management, giving her a pragmatic view of product delivery from mobile to web. Colleagues value her for understanding not just what to build but why it matters, and for quietly improving developer ergonomics by removing noisy logs and tightening tests. She brings a detail-oriented, user-first approach to frontend systems that scale.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Computer Science at Centro de Informática UFPE
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
javascript10
material-components10
testing10
css10
liferay10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
datatable10
ui-design10
datatables10
alloy10
uid10
material-design10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zenorocha/browser-diet
Jan 2014 - May 2014
:fries: The definitive front-end performance guide
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nara primarily contributed to the front-end of the "browser-diet" project, focusing on the styling and user interface. They made numerous changes to the `style.less` file, including adjustments to the layout, typography, and responsive design elements. The contributions include modifying language pickers, adding CSS rules and modifying existing rules across different sections of the guide. The changes made by the user appear to be focused on improving the visual presentation and user experience of the browser-diet guide across various devices.
performancejavascriptfront-end
liferay/alloy-ui
Aug 2012 - Mar 2013
AlloyUI is a framework built on top of YUI3 (JavaScript) that uses Bootstrap 3 (HTML/CSS) to provide a simple API for building high scalable applications
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nara primarily focused on improving the AlloyUI framework's datepicker and datatable components. Their work involved porting the date editor in datatable to use the native YUI calendar, removing unnecessary console logs, and fixing calendar functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented UI improvements for the scheduler component. These changes collectively enhance the user interface and usability of the AlloyUI framework.
apiscalablebootstrap-3cssjavascript
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