Thiago Padilha
Software Engineer at CoPlane
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolThiago Padilha is a software engineer with 16+ years of experience building low-level and backend systems, currently working at CoPlane out of Recife, Brazil. He has deep open-source credentials—including launching Neovim and meaningful contributions to high-profile projects like Neovim, LXD, Fluent Bit, Electron, and zsh-autosuggestions. Thiago is known for performance-minded refactors and modular architecture work (for example, introducing khash into Neovim’s map code and converting LXD’s QEMU templates into function-based configuration), and for reimplementing Fluent Bit’s Lua filter using mpack. He blends systems-level C expertise with Python and full-stack touches, helping teams ship reliable, extensible infrastructure and developer tools.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Github Skills (45)
api-doc10
lxd10
container10
c-language10
data-collection10
electron10
python10
scripting10
qemu10
hash-tables10
autocomplete10
object-oriented-programming10
c1110
ipc10
containers10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/pynvim
May 2014 - Jul 2015
Python client and plugin host for Nvim
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Thiago's contributions primarily centered on enhancing the Python client for Neovim, focusing on core functionality. This involved adding support for mixins to customize classes, fixing issues related to API function return values, and fixing TCP connections. Moreover, the user contributed to improving the project by implementing new methods in existing classes and also updated the project's dependencies.
pythonvimhostpython-clientneovim
neovim/neovim
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 144 commits, 125 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Thiago primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Neovim editor, focusing on low-level modules. The user made significant improvements to the map module by refactoring the `vim_to_object_rec` function using khash. This involved the introduction and utilization of a hash table data structure for improving performance of lookup operations. The user was also responsible for several API-level bug fixes, code cleanup and optimization changes.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
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