Description

I'm Faustino, an Angolan 🇦🇴 software engineer based in Paris, France 🇫🇷. I'm passionate about solving problems and building software that makes a difference. I'm currently working at Beedeez as a Lead Software Engineer.

I'm also a big fan of open source and I try to contribute to the community as much as I can. I'm the co-creator of Excalidraw, a virtual whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Beedeez
Lead Engineer
EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
April 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
Paris, France
• • Defining OKRs for the team and helping achieve them.
• • Helping the team deliver battle-tested features faster
• • Working on our new Design System for Mobile and Web
• • Implementing the first A11y foundation
• • Rearchitecting our codebases to make them more maintainable and scalable
• • Running workshops to teach testing, TypeScript and React
Typescript React.js React Native
Excalidraw.com (Open Source)
Co-creator and Contributor
January 2020 - Today (6 years and 5 months)
• • Added support for changing the canva's background color so that it's more flexible to user needs
• • Added support for copying/pasting styles from one element to another so that users spend less time recreating identical elements
• • Working on our new Design System for Mobile and Web
• • Helped users by fixing their issues or giving them support through GitHub Issuers, Discord and/or Twitter
Typescript React.js Canvas PWA
PMU (React Native)
Software Engineer Consultant
October 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 2 months)
Paris, France
• • Implemented media upload that helped customers share documents with customer-services
• • Rearchitected codebase for better developer experience
• • Improved app's performance to help users on low-end devices have a smoother and better user experience
• • Create native modules and bridge to help integration with various SDKs
• • Refactored various parts of codebase that were legacy and added tests to help avoid regressions