Thales Grilo
Senior Fullstack Engineer at TheGuarantors
Federal District, Brazil
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Top SchoolThales Grilo is a Senior Fullstack Engineer with 8 years of experience building user-focused web and mobile products and leading teams through Shape Up practices and technical mentorship. He blends front-end expertise (React, UI/UX design) with backend work in Elixir and Node, and has taken tech lead and senior engineering roles across startups and enterprise environments. An open-source contributor and former Google Summer of Code mentor, he improved the widely used p5.js Web Editor—helping democratize creative coding with mobile-friendly UX and file-management enhancements. Curious about functional programming and machine learning, Thales pairs technical depth with interests in language learning, philosophy and travel, bringing empathy and a creative coder’s mindset to product problems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react10
file-management9
user-interface9
state-management8
redux8
mobile-development8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js-web-editor
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
The p5.js Editor is a website for creating p5.js sketches, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else! You can create, share, or remix p5.js sketches without needing to download or configure anything.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:320 commits, 28 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Thales primarily contributed to the front-end development of the p5.js web editor, focusing on features related to file management and user interface improvements. They implemented and refactored components, such as `FileNode` and `Sidebar`, adding new functionalities like filename editing and adding unsaved changes indicators. Their work involved significant changes to the React-based UI, with related code refactoring for better state management and responsiveness.
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ghalestrilo/p5.js-web-editor
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
p5.js Web Editor, officially launched!
Contributions:131 pushes, 18 branches in 4 months
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