Wellington Wallace
Assistant Professor at Cefet-RJ
Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolWellington Wallace is an assistant professor and Ph.D. candidate in physics at UFRJ with nine years of experience combining academic teaching and hands-on software development. Based in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, he teaches at Cefet-RJ while pursuing research, and earlier served as a substitute professor and distance-learning tutor, demonstrating strong pedagogy across modalities. Unusually for a physics academic, he contributes to open-source systems software—implementing C-level fixes and feature work on the widely used PulseAudio project’s null-sink module—bridging experimental physics insight with low-level back-end engineering. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex theoretical concepts into practical code and classroom materials, making him effective at both mentoring students and improving production software.
9 years of coding experience
Ph.D. student, Physics, Ph.D. student, Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / UFRJMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
c1710
audio-processing10
pulseaudio10
c1110
linux9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pulseaudio/pulseaudio
Apr 2018 - May 2019
Mirror of the PulseAudio sound server (for bug reports and pull requests go to the website!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Wellington contributed to the PulseAudio project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the null-sink module. Their work focused on adding options to disable rewinds, modifying latency ranges, and making related adjustments within the null-sink module's logic. The user's contributions involved modifying C code and module configurations to change functionality.
reportsbug-reportsaudiopulsepull-requests
wwmm/easyeffects
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
Contributions:25 reviews, 5208 commits, 1659 PRs in 5 years 11 months
auto-volumepipewirecompressorequalizervolume
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