Waldir Pimenta
Technical Writer at Feedzai
Braga, Portugal
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Waldir Pimenta is a versatile software engineer and technical writer with 15 years of experience blending computer graphics, desktop and backend web development with clear technical communication. Currently coordinating product documentation at Feedzai, he has led large content migrations to docs-as-code, built doc CI pipelines, and driven cross-team knowledge transfer between frontend, backend and data science teams. A longtime open-source contributor, he improves UX and localization across high-profile projects such as MediaWiki, Homebrew and Julia, and has hands-on experience from browser extensions to core language repos. His background in 3D graphics and research (MSc in Computer Graphics and AI, partial PhD work) informs a talent for distilling complex systems into structured, visual and interactive documentation. Equally comfortable in code and prose, he focuses on sustainability in open collaboration, governance and licensing to help projects last beyond any single contributor.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer-Generated Holography [unfinished], PhD, Computer-Generated Holography [unfinished] at Universidade do MinhoBSc, Computer Graphics and Multimedia Engineering, 16 (out of 20), BSc, Computer Graphics and Multimedia Engineering, 16 (out of 20) at Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
English, Portuguese, cape verdean creole, Spanish
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Github Skills (63)
mediawiki10
javascript10
licensing10
website-development10
github10
scripting10
browser-extension10
font-manager10
testing10
css10
internationalization10
bash10
homebrew-cask10
ui-design10
svg-editor10
Programming languages (45)
Github contributions (5)
github/choosealicense.com
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 28 commits, 22 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Waldir primarily focused on improving the codebase's structure, consistency, and user experience. Their contributions involved renaming code elements for better clarity and maintainability, as seen in the renaming of "category" to "family" and "families" to "ruletypes". They also merged changes from the gh-pages branch and improved the UI by harmonizing quotation marks and apostrophes. Additionally, they added examples for Creative Commons licenses and OFL, and adjusted instructions in README.md to match CONTRIBUTING.md, reflecting a focus on improving documentation and project usability.
licensinglawopen-source-licensingguidancejekyll
refined-github/refined-github
Dec 2018 - Jul 2021
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Waldir primarily contributed to the front-end of the "refined-github" browser extension. They focused on improving the user interface by adding features like opening notifications in new tabs, clarifying UI messages for comment hiding functionality, and fixing a warning message related to link handling. They also modified the token generation link. Furthermore, they adjusted the wording of the status subscription tooltip to provide a better user experience.
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