Sérgio Saquetim is a software engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of professional experience and a strong foundation in applied and computational mathematics from USP. He currently contributes to Discourse as a full-stack developer, focusing on bug fixes, UI improvements and features such as robust handling of accented characters in category slugs and plugin-extensible topic slug behavior. Before joining Discourse he spent nearly two decades at Banco do Brasil in progressively senior roles, gaining deep experience in large-scale, production-grade systems and operational rigor. He also holds a postgraduate specialization in Computer Forensics, which informs a security-conscious approach to engineering. Sérgio blends backend and frontend expertise with a mathematician’s attention to edge cases and data integrity. Colleagues can rely on him for pragmatic solutions that improve user experience while hardening platform behavior.
11 years of coding experience
Pós Graduação, Especialização em Computação Forense, Pós Graduação, Especialização em Computação Forense at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie / Universidade Mackenzie
Bacharel, Matemática Aplicada e Computacional, Bacharel, Matemática Aplicada e Computacional at Universidade de São Paulo / USP
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:138 reviews, 16 commits, 228 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Sérgio primarily contributed to bug fixes and new feature development within the Discourse platform. Their work involved addressing issues related to category slug generation, ensuring proper handling of accented characters. They implemented features allowing plugins to modify topic slugs and enabling automatic updates to topic statistics. Additionally, the user made improvements to the user interface and added new functionality.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 8 months
discoursetheme-component
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.
Request Free Trial
Sérgio Saquetim - Engenheiro De Software at Discourse