Leonardo Polon is a software engineer with about 10 years of experience, blending a biology background with hands-on web development to deliver robust checkout experiences. He specializes in TypeScript, React, and Node.js, and has led front-end work migrating legacy Angular.js checkout to modern stacks at Americanas. He currently contributes to Wellhub's backend and frontend initiatives, building A/B testing infrastructure with Optimizely, improving observability with Grafana Loki and Tempo, and delivering partner acquisition features. Earlier at VTEX, he owned the checkout UI, built responsive forms, enhanced accessibility, and set up front-end testing infrastructure. His work has driven measurable improvements in performance and conversions, reflecting a strong focus on type safety and maintainable tests. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he shares code and projects on GitHub as lpolon.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Ciências Morfológicas, Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Mestrado em Ciências Morfológicas, Biologia do Desenvolvimento at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
full-time Web Development Bootcamp, Programação de Computadores, full-time Web Development Bootcamp, Programação de Computadores at Ironhack
Bacharelado em Administração industrial, Administração e Negócios, Bacharelado em Administração industrial, Administração e Negócios at Cefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca
My goal is to build a api with functionalities like splitwise, while learn testing
Contributions:142 commits, 9 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
apigoaltestingsplitwisetypescript
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