Sérgio Gomes
Division Operations Director
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolSérgio Gomes is a seasoned technology and operations leader with 14 years of experience blending hands-on software engineering and delivery management across automotive, banking, health, insurance, public sector and now energy. As Division Operations Director at Critical Software he drives operational excellence and regulatory-compliant project delivery while fostering purpose-driven innovation and talent development. His engineering roots (Telecommunications & Computer Science) and history as a full-stack contributor to high-profile open-source projects like WordPress’ Jetpack, Calypso and Gutenberg give him a rare mix of front-end performance expertise and pragmatic delivery instincts. He’s led 20+ person teams through digital transformations, agile adoption and continuous improvement programs, and has run a tech services company as Managing Director. Notably, his open-source work targeted real-world performance wins—removing jQuery dependencies, improving SSR safety and cutting editor re-renders—showing an eye for measurable impact. Based in Lisbon, he pairs strategic leadership with a personable, curiosity-driven approach to solving complex operational and technical challenges.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Telecommunications and Computer Science, Engineer's Degree Telecommunications and Computer Science at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
testing10
css10
wordpress10
typescript10
webpages10
web-content10
plugin10
php10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
gutenberg10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2018 - Sep 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:228 reviews, 402 commits, 843 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sérgio made multiple contributions across the frontend and backend of the WordPress.com Calypso project, including refactoring code for improved maintainability and performance. Key changes included replacing deprecated libraries (lodash and url) with modern alternatives (`lodash-es` and native APIs) and rewriting components with React hooks and TypeScript for improved type safety. The user also refactored the code to make SSR (Server Side Rendering) safer, which affected components that handled GDPR compliance.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
WordPress/gutenberg
Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:185 reviews, 15 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sérgio primarily focused on optimizing the performance of the Gutenberg editor. They made significant changes to improve typing performance by splitting attributes in the state tree and simplifying block flattening code. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to rerendering on startup by ensuring synchronous viewport data store changes and modifying the hasUploadPermissions reducer. They also addressed tree-shaking issues for react-dates and diff libraries.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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