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Zeno Rocha

Front-end Engineer

Hi, I’m Zeno. I am a 22 year old front-end engineer who lives in Rio and works for an awesome company based in LA :)

Also a co-founder of BrazilJS Foundation1, consultant mentor at Papaya Ventures2, host on Zone of Front-enders3 and graduated in Information Systems at UNIRIO4.

I used to work as a software developer at Globo5 and Petrobras6. Now I’m at Liferay, Inc.7 working on a open source project called AlloyUI8.


  1. BrazilJS Foundation is a non-profit foundation with a mission to move and unify the JavaScript community in Brazil — Website | Twitter | Facebook

  2. Papaya Ventures is a startup Accelerator who believes passionately in the idea of accelerating digital startups in the Brazilian market — Website | Facebook

  3. Zone of Front-enders (or just ZOFE) is a podcast presented by me and Daniel Filho in portuguese. We usually talk about web development, front-end, etc — Website | Twitter | Facebook

  4. Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, commonly known as UNIRIO is one of the four federally funded public universities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Website | Wikipedia

  5. Globo is the main leader television network in Brazil. It’s the second-largest commercial TV network in annual revenue worldwide just behind American Broadcasting Company — Website | Twitter | Facebook | Wikipedia

  6. Petrobras is a multinational energy corporation headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest company in the Southern Hemisphere by market capitalization and the largest in Latin America measured by 2011 revenues — Website | Facebook | Wikipedia

  7. Liferay is an open-source company focused on enterprise portal technology. It began on 2000 as a personal project and had its code open-sourced on 2001. Since then Liferay Portal popularity grown a lot, with more than 5 million downloads and a vibrant community of more than 45.000 members. The company has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California and some affiliates around the world, including Brazil — Website | Twitter | Facebook | Wikipedia

  8. AlloyUI is a JavaScript framework built on top of YUI3 that provides a simple API for building high scalable applications — Website | Github | Twitter