I am Lucas G. Santos .

I'm a passionate Front End specialist located in Brazil, I work with front-end development, engineering, and architecting and I'm living this passion for the past 10 years. I have fun doing my job! For the past years I've been focusing especially on front-end performance and usability in the web.

My other interests

Basketball 🏀

I really like any kind of sport, and I am lover and player of basketball in free time

Sneakers 👟

I'm a sneaker fan since I was a kid, this came from my court days

Camping / Trekking 🏕️

This is an activity I learned with my parents, and I love it!

Video-games 🎮

I'm a Nintendo Switch player :D

Lucas' profiles photo on a rooftop

Skills.

Professional skills:

JavaScript, HTML, CSS (SASS, LESS, Styled-components, Emotion), Webpack, React, React Native, Next.js, Gatsby, Expo, GraphQL, Elm, Parcel, Svelte, Jest, Testing Library, Vue, UX

Personal skills:

Communication, Team Work, Flexibility, Positive Attitude, Open-Mindedness, Creativity, Dedication

Languages:

PT-Br (Native) / EN (Fluent) / ES (Basic) / FR (Basic)

Experience.

Sr. Front-End Engineer/Architect Consultant

Berty Technologies

May 2019 - Present

Working as a strategic Front-End Engineer and Architect on open-source and private projects developing, analyzing, evolving, and proposing the enrichment of web apps and products. Mostly with React and related like Gatsby and Next.

Sr. Product Engineer - Frontend

Onebrief Inc

Aug 2020 - Dec 2021

Working as a Product Engineer englobes helping shape the product through active contribution in product conversations and providing strong technical development approaches working as a specialist in the front-end layer using technologies and tools like React, D3, and more.

Sr. Front-End/UI UX Engineer

MaxMilhas

Aug 2016 - Apr 2020

Analysis and front-end development of internal web apps, mobile apps, rich scalable UI, UX routines, and Google Chrome Extensions mostly with Javascript, React, jQuery, Angular.js, Vue.js, Webpack/Rollup, HTML/5, CSS/3 (SASS), and React Native for mobile and using Git for versioning and deploy purposes. I worked managing releases on the core of the design system, website, and payment platform, taking care of the front-end guild I worked and headed the team on a path to create the company design system, with principles like Atomic Design and encouraging good practices on front-end development. The project was built using React, Emotion, Storybook and other technologies to create a scalable system with theme support and high maintainability. In the beginning, I also worked with Gulp and Bower to automate some workflows and take care of some dependencies in projects that we migrated later.

Sr. Front-End/UI UX Engineer

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG

Apr 2016 - Aug 2016

I was part of the team that created the new CMS and Page of the University. Also I worked with Front-end/UI/UX development, analysis and development of highly scalable UI and webapps for the University specially with Angular.js, React, and HTML/5, CSS/3 (SASS, LESS, Compass), Javascript, jQuery. With Gulp to automate workflow and Bower to take care of dependencies.

UI/UX Developer - Front-End

Plan B Comunicação

Apr 2014 - Apr 2016

Front-end development, analysis and development of highly scalable UI and Webapps with HTML/5, CSS/3 (SASS, LESS, Compass), Gulp, Javascript, jQuery, Angular.js, ReactJs in back-end environments with .NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Kooboo CMS, Wordpress among others.

Intern Web Developer

Arcadian Tecnologia

Jan 2013 - Mar 2014

Analysis of system UX, creating documentation of the systems UI/UX development, front-end development with HTML5, XHTML, CSS3 (LESS and SASS), JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, BackboneJS for some POCs also Grunt/Gulp to automate front-end workflow, using the IDE Eclipse and using versioning SVN / Git.

Web Designer/Webmaster

MEGA Marketing

Sep 2012 - Jan 2013

At MEGA I used to work creating and analysing websites, creating newsletters, development using CMS (Wordpress, Joomla and Magento), front-end development with HTML5, CSS3 (LESS, SASS), Javascript and jQuery, development using CakePHP framework.

Web Designer/Webmaster

SETE Editora Digital

Jun 2012 - Sep 2012

I used to work creating layouts for websites, image processing, creating banners, creating newsletters and front-end development with HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and jQuery, web development with PHP using CMS (Wordpress, Joomla and PrestaShop) and Framework CakePHP also with management of MySQL database.

Education.

Computer Science @UOP - University of People / California

2019 -

Associates degree

Information Systems @Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

2012 - 2015

Extension and research programs, basketball player. Locked: Not finished

Courses, Lectures and Workshops

Applied Accessibility: Practical Tips for Building More Accessible Front-Ends - Sitepoint (2020) |||| Testing React Applications, v2 with Kent C. Dods - Front-End Masters (2019) |||| React: Managing Complex Interactions - Linkedin Learning (2018) |||| Browser Render Optimization - Udacity (2017) |||| JavaScript Testing - Udacity (2017) |||| Vue JS 2: The Complete Guide - Udemy (2017) |||| The Complete React Native and Redux Course - Udemy (2016 - 2017) |||| JavaScript Design Patterns - Pluralsight - (2015) |||| Building Mobile Apps With the Ionic Framework and AngularJS - Pluralsight - (2015) |||| Play by Play: Learning AngularJS With Ken Cenerelli and John Papa - Pluralsight (2015) |||| Brazil JS Conf (2013 - 2014 - 2016) |||| Front In BH (2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2016 - 2017) |||| CSS Innovation - Bradesco Foundation (2013) |||| Live Coding - Best Front End Practices - Tableless Inc. (2013)

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