
Welcome!
My name is Filipa Lacerda and I'm a Senior Frontend Engineer at Lively, a speaker and a mentor.
I'm based in sunny Portugal and I'm passionate about the web & teaching.
Experience
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Senior Frontend EngineerMay 2024 - CURRENTWorked on fixing technical debt, from creating semantic tokens for the design system reusable components to adding more than 600 unit tests to components that didn't have any. Worked on fixing acessibility errors by implementing acessibility unit tests and enable Storybook acessibility checks.
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Senior Frontend EngineerDecember 2020 - May 2024Worked closely with developers who built their product's API to integrate with Zapier. Worked on the Design System team, creating and maintaing components for the whole company to use. Migrated all the components from Styleguidist to Storybook, allowing for acessibility testing.
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Frontend EngineerDecember 2019 - 2020
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Senior Frontend Engineer, Release and VerifySeptember 2017 - December 2019
Developing several Release and Verify features.
Worked 4 months as Release Manager
Wrote the documentation for Vuex Patterns.
Refactored several Rails features into VueJS+Vuex.
Maintainer.
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Frontend EngineerSeptember 2016 - September 2017
Developed several CI/CD features.
Designed the Architecture for our Vue applications.
Wrote Documentation for Vue patterns and Flux state management & Internal Styleguide for Vue.
Maintainer.
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MentorJuly 2018 - December 2018Frontend Mentorship - Coaching students
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AuthorJanuary 2018 - March 2018Wrote technical blog posts about Vue.js
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Frontend DeveloperJanuary 2015 - September 2016Built the Frontend for a fraud prevention product using React, Redux & Webpack. Built the Frontend for several clients, on-site.
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Frontend DeveloperMarch 2013 - December 2014Developed the client side of some projects with ember.js, javascript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and using REST APIs; Including the development of the user experience interface. Worked with Agile Methodologies.
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User Experience DesignerNovember 2011 - February 2013Developed projects in JavaScript, HTML and CSS in the healthcare field
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ResearcherNovember 2010 - June 2011Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Casa das Ciência
Talks
- GitLab's journey With Vue - from jQuery to GraphQL @ Connect Fest Porto, Portugal • September 5th, 2019
- Workshop CI/CD como ferramenta de Devops @ DETI, Aveiro, Portugal • April 25, 2019
- Vuex Patterns: Why actions matter @ VueJS Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands • February 14-15, 2019
- Beyond Agile - Conversational Development at GitLab @ GDG DevFest Lisboa, Portugal • December 8, 2018
- Vue and Vuex: The good, the bad and the ugly - GitLab's use case @ GDG DevFest Coimbra, Portugal • November 24, 2018
- Vue and Vuex: The good, the bad and the ugly @ Vue Conf TO Toronto, Canada • November 14-16, 2018
- An overvue a tale of speed and maintainability @ Commit Porto Porto, Portugal • June 30, 2018
- Vuejs made my life easier @ require('lx') - The JavaScript meetup in Lisbon Lisboa, Portugal • February 21, 2018
- One Tool for Software Development @ Semana da Engenharia Informática Braga, Portugal • February 3-11, 2018
- GitLab CI/CD - An overview @ DevOps Porto Porto, Portugal • June 21-23, 2017
- No time to refactor, how we made the Frontend awesome at GitLab with Vue.js @ Vue Conf WROCŁAW, Poland • June 21-23, 2017
Blog Posts
Podcasts
Education
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MSc in Multimedia Communication - Interactive MultimediaUniversidade de Aveiro2010-2012
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BSc in New Communication TechnologiesUniversidade de Aveiro2007-2010