Paulo Matias
Assistant Professor at Grupo de Sistemas Distribuídos e Redes
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolPaulo Matias is an Assistant Professor and researcher at Universidade Federal de São Carlos with 16 years of experience bridging academic research and hands-on software engineering. He holds a PhD in Computational Physics from the University of São Paulo and applies rigorous quantitative methods to distributed systems and networking research. As Scientific Director of the Epic Leet Team and an active CTF player, he brings a practical, security-minded perspective to problem solving and mentoring. On GitHub he contributes front-end and performance work to notable open-source projects like KOReader, improving UI, gesture handling and LuaJIT profiling support. Based in São Carlos, Brazil, he also coaches LLM initiatives at UFSCar and brings uncommon hobbies—ham radio operation and competitive CTFs—that inform his systems-thinking and resilience.
16 years of coding experience
University of São Paulo
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Github Skills (11)
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kobo8
kindle8
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
koreader/koreader
May 2013 - Oct 2014
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the KOReader project, with changes focused on user interface elements and interactions. Their commits addressed bugs in the gesture detector and frontlight functionalities, enhancing the user experience. Additionally, the user implemented LuaJIT profiling support and improved command-line option handling, suggesting a focus on optimizing performance and debugging capabilities. The user also performed refactoring and bug fixing across multiple files related to UI, demonstrating expertise in the project's front-end codebase.
ebookkobocbzpdf-reflowdjvu
thotypous/arq1
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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