Thiago Padilha
Software Engineer at CoPlane
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolThiago Padilha is a seasoned software engineer based in Recife, Brazil, with over a decade of hands-on experience building and refactoring core systems across multiple languages and platforms. He has a strong track record in backend and systems work, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as Electron, Neovim, LXD and Fluent Bit—often improving low-level APIs, modularizing complex configurations, and replacing heavy dependencies with leaner implementations. Thiago has shipped production-grade improvements for container/QEMU tooling, editor internals, and logging pipelines, demonstrating deep familiarity with performance-sensitive C/C++ and systems integration. He balances long-term open-source stewardship (including founding and driving Neovim development) with recent startup and product engineering roles, bringing both architectural insight and pragmatic code-level execution. Notably, his contributions include enabling sandboxed renderer features in Electron and rearchitecting QEMU config generation in LXD, reflecting a knack for making intricate subsystems more modular and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Github Skills (42)
lxd10
container10
c-language10
data-collection10
electron10
python10
apidoc10
scripting10
qemu10
autocomplete10
c1110
object-oriented-programming10
ipc10
c1710
neovim10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/pynvim
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Python client and plugin host for Nvim
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Thiago's contributions primarily centered on enhancing the Python client for Neovim, focusing on core functionality. This involved adding support for mixins to customize classes, fixing issues related to API function return values, and fixing TCP connections. Moreover, the user contributed to improving the project by implementing new methods in existing classes and also updated the project's dependencies.
pythonvimhostpython-clientneovim
neovim/neovim
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 144 commits, 125 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Thiago primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Neovim editor, focusing on low-level modules. The user made significant improvements to the map module by refactoring the `vim_to_object_rec` function using khash. This involved the introduction and utilization of a hash table data structure for improving performance of lookup operations. The user was also responsible for several API-level bug fixes, code cleanup and optimization changes.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
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