Paulo Pinto
Software Engineer at Automattic
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolPaulo Pinto is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building products at Automattic from Lisbon. He blends front-end polish and back-end integration skills—contributing UI improvements and UX-focused changes to Matrix projects while adding OAuth2 refresh token support in Symfony libraries. A former lead engineer and co-founder, he has a track record of standardizing codebases and improving developer ergonomics across large open-source projects. Trained as an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Paulo brings a systems-thinking approach uncommon in web engineering, often addressing both terminology consistency and practical UX details in the same patch.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoErasmus exchange program Electrical and Computer Engineering, Erasmus exchange program Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ghent University
English, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
symfony-bundle10
typescript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
php10
api10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
typescripts10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Matrix SDK for React Javascript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 77 commits, 3 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily contributed to the user interface of the Matrix React SDK. Their work focused on standardizing wording, improving the user experience through more informative messages, and refining components such as settings panels, dialogs, and form elements. They also added functionality for linking to specific messages within the chat interface and refined the display of previews and other elements within the user interface.
reactmatrix-chatjavascriptsdkmatrix-sdk
matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Matrix Client-Server SDK for JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paulo contributed to standardizing terminology, casing, and spelling within the Matrix client-server SDK for JavaScript. They primarily focused on modifying files related to core client functionality, including the `client.ts`, `http-api.js`, and `service-types.ts` files. Their work involved updating references to identity servers, integration managers, and homeservers, ensuring consistency in the codebase. Additionally, they modified the example browser file and added the HTML required attributes for the browser example.
matrix-chatjavascriptclient-serversdkmatrix-sdk
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