Tiago Romero Garcia
Staff Software Engineer at Truewind
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolTiago Romero Garcia is a bilingual Brazilian-American Staff Software Engineer with over 18 years of experience building high-impact web products and platforms for companies like Pinterest, Asana, Sephora and Macy’s. He blends deep front-end expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, performance and accessibility with hands-on leadership—rebuilding teams, owning technical vision for Ads Manager at Pinterest, and driving measurable performance wins at Asana. A pragmatic architect and mentor, he’s shipped cross-functional features that increased conversions and cut latency (e.g., halving Portfolio pagination P95 and dramatically improving initial load perceived performance). Tiago is an active open-source contributor (notably improving accessibility and adding components to Pinterest’s Gestalt UI library), and he champions inclusion—co-leading ERGs and growing accessibility engagement. Based in Sacramento, he brings empathy, creativity and a coach-first mindset to founding-stage product and platform work.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Technical, Informatics, Technical, Informatics at Escola Técnica Estadual Jorge StreetBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de ItajubáPostgraduate Degree, Distributed Software Architecture, Postgraduate Degree, Distributed Software Architecture at PUC MinasTechnical, Informatics, Technical, Informatics at Escola Técnica Estadual Lauro Gomes
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
accessibility10
javascript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
ui-design10
system10
uid10
front-end-development10
sys10
react10
gulp9
ecmascript9
documentation9
babeljs9
bind6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/gestalt
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and functionality of React UI components within the `gestalt` repository. Their contributions involved adding accessibility properties (aria-controls, aria-expanded, etc.) to various components like Button, IconButton, and Touchable, and updating documentation and examples to reflect these changes. They also introduced a new Sheet component, adding features such as different sizes and controlling animation behavior. Further improvements included updating existing components' documentation, refactoring, and adding the subHeading prop to the Sheet component.
reactlanguage-designjavascriptreact-ui-componentspinterest
themindfuldev/marionette-vdom
Dec 2014 - Dec 2018
Contributions:87 commits, 8 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years
javascriptdommarionettevirtual-dom
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