Kilian Melcher
Software Engineer II, Frontend at Uber
Paraíba, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolKilian Melcher is a Software Engineer based in Paraíba, Brazil, with nine years of professional experience and three years focused on frontend development, currently maintaining and modernizing VTEX’s promotions and pricing UIs used by hundreds of e-commerce stores. He has migrated legacy Angular pages to Next.js, introduced robust testing and validation (Jest, Vest), improved API caching with TanStack Query, and integrated FeatureHub for progressive rollouts and A/B experimentation. Kilian combines product-minded frontend work with strong observability and backend-awareness—implementing OpenSearch logging and using Amplitude, Redshift, and live RDS data to drive UX decisions and incident resolution at scale. He is an active open-source contributor to OCA/l10n-brazil, where he led a PagSeguro payment integration and improved JS test tours and error handling, showing comfort across full-stack payment workflows. A high-performing computer science graduate (9.2/10), he has also built tooling for AWS cost and autoscaling analysis, demonstrating an uncommon blend of frontend polish and cloud-cost/reliability insight.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Github Skills (6)
payment-gateway10
odo10
python10
odoo10
javascript9
web-development9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OCA/l10n-brazil
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Localização brasileira oficial do Odoo.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 62 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kilian primarily focused on implementing and enhancing the PagSeguro payment integration within the Odoo Brazilian localization project. They removed an old payment addon and integrated a new one, adding uninstall hooks and js test tours. Further contributions include currency validation, handling of card and token errors, and improvements to the README documentation, improving the usability and integration of PagSeguro.
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ufcg-lsd/autoscaling-analyser
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 reviews, 59 commits, 24 PRs in 7 months
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