Zee Vieira is a Technical Lead based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building and operating backend systems across media, gaming, commerce, and developer tooling. Comfortable spanning hands-on engineering and cross-team leadership, Zee has led backend guilds, driven DevSecOps adoption, and shipped infrastructure for high-traffic products including Minecraft Realms and global commerce platforms. As a pragmatic Go-focused backend engineer and former Senior Software Engineer at LootLocker, Zee contributes to open-source projects like Backstage, improving GitLab discovery reliability and caching under race conditions. Known for an agile mindset grounded in practice, Zee combines deep technical troubleshooting with a knack for harmonising technology choices across organisations and even brings public service experience from municipal and board roles.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Student Examen Systems Architecture & Programming, Student Examen Systems Architecture & Programming at IT-Gymnasiet
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zee primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Backstage developer portal. They focused on improving the GitLab discovery processor, addressing issues related to timestamp handling and caching. Their contributions involved fixing a bug to prevent sending empty timestamps, optimizing the code and refactoring the construction of options for listing projects and ensuring the cache is used correctly to avoid race conditions. These changes improved the reliability and efficiency of project discovery from GitLab.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 9 months
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