Paulo Chaves
Full Stack Engineer at Thunkable
Brazil
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Top SchoolPaulo Chaves is a Full Stack Engineer based in Brazil with a decade of experience building scalable web applications and improving user-facing systems. He brings a strong TypeScript/Node.js and React.js toolkit alongside lower-level experience in C++, Solidity, and event-processing pipelines, enabling him to span frontend, backend, and blockchain work. Paulo has contributed UI and UX improvements to the widely used Canvas LMS—enhancing assignment workflows, grade visibility, and notification behavior—demonstrating attention to product-facing details at scale. His background includes migrating sites to JAMstack, integrating Salesforce, and building high-throughput data pipelines, reflecting a practical focus on performance and reliability. Comfortable in startups and consultancy settings, he pairs hands-on coding with engineering best practices and cross-functional collaboration. An interesting thread through his career is shifting between deep backend/data problems and polish-focused frontend work, giving him uncommon breadth across the stack.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Systems And Analysis Development, Information Technology, Systems And Analysis Development, Information Technology at IFPI
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (16)
javascript10
react10
ui-design9
i18next8
css8
html8
i18n-js8
i18n-node8
wordpress-graphql7
wpgraphql7
graphql7
unit-testing6
ui-testing6
testing6
abtest6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the user interface of the Canvas LMS, focusing on improving the student experience within the assignments section. Their work included updating file upload UI components, ensuring UI consistency with design specifications, and refining the display of feedback, like late and unread indicators, on the grades page. They also modified email notifications, directing links to the appropriate assignment pages and implemented changes to support the visibility of student grades.
open-lmsinstructurecanvas-lmslmsinc
oPauloChaves/zssn-hapi-api
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 52 PRs, 67 pushes in 20 days
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