Vitor Roriz is a software engineer with nine years of experience building systems from embedded RTOS and networking stacks to large-scale web platform work, currently contributing to WebKit at Apple. He blends low-level C/C++ expertise from roles at Cisco, Toyota Gazoo Racing and LANCOM with front-end and web-standards testing skills demonstrated by significant contributions to the widely used web-platform-tests project. Based in California and originally from Brazil, he’s comfortable shipping cross-browser compatibility fixes and exporting WebKit bug fixes upstream. Vitor’s background in aerospace and embedded systems gives him a systems-minded approach to web API design and testing, making him adept at bridging hardware-constrained thinking with modern web platform challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering (Dropped out), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Professional Master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering (Dropped out), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
English, English at EF Englishtown
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Oficial)
Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Year 2, Embedded Computing Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) - Year 2, Embedded Computing Systems at University of Kaiserslautern
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 44 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vitor contributed significantly to the web platform tests, focusing on testing various aspects of web standards. Their work included adding tests for intersection observer, font-size-adjust, counter styles, and text-autospace. The contributions primarily involved creating and modifying HTML files, demonstrating a focus on web component testing, and ensuring the correct rendering behavior of web standards across different browsers. The user also participated in WebKit exports of existing bug fixes and features.
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:7 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Vitor's contributions primarily revolve around updating and adding tests within the web-platform-tests framework. They are involved in incorporating WebKit exports for various bugs and making tests platform-independent. The user fixes typos, and adds tests focusing on specific CSS properties related to text and fonts. These changes indicate a focus on ensuring cross-browser compatibility and adherence to web standards.
repositoriesfirefoxmercurialgit-mirrormozilla
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