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Tomás Ribeiro

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Android Engineer

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Kotlin, Compose, and battery-friendly background work.

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Showcase14d ago·1 entry

our internal changelog bot

We built a Slack bot that turns merged PRs into weekly release notes. It groups changes by label and pings owners when summaries are missing. The first version was a cron job; now it reacts to GitHub webhooks. Sharing the architecture and the parts that still need polish. Biggest win: PMs stopped chasing engineers for release copy. Feedback welcome if you have run changelog automation at scale.

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Career15d ago·1 entry

from my first year as a staff engineer

Influence without owning every PR took longer than I expected. Saying no clearly protected the roadmap more than heroic overtime. Writing the docs nobody wants to write still changes team speed. I spent more time unblocking others than shipping my own features. Staff work is often invisible until the org feels the absence of it. Still learning how to measure impact without vanity metrics.

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