Nícolas Moura
Squad Leader Senior Software Engineer at Liferay
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolNícolas Moura is a senior software engineer and squad leader with nine years of experience building backend systems and leading teams at Liferay. He progressed through roles from intern to squad leader, combining hands-on refactoring and feature work—most notably improving import-migration tooling in the high-profile liferay-portal repository—with people leadership and mentorship. Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, he brings a pragmatic problem-solving mindset and a rapid adaptability to new technologies that helps squads deliver complex projects reliably. Nícolas pairs a strong backend engineering craft with a track record of adding tests and addressing tricky edge cases, signaling a focus on maintainable, production-ready code. He is passionate about continuous learning and scaling both technical solutions and developer capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Sistemas de informação, Bacharelado Sistemas de informação at Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
English
Github Skills (6)
javas10
java10
freemarker9
jsp9
jspx9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-portal
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 7 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nícolas primarily focused on refactoring and improving code within the `liferay-portal` repository. Their commits centered around the `UpgradeImportsCheck` class, enhancing its functionality to migrate and upgrade Java imports, particularly for JSP and FreeMarker files. This involved modifying import replacement logic, addressing edge cases, and fixing issues related to variable replacement within the source code. The user's work also included the addition of tests for the `UpgradeImportsCheck` functionality.
nicolas-sss/liferay-portal
Jan 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:238 reviews, 173 PRs, 603 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.