Anthony Ferreira is a backend developer with over six years of experience building high-performance systems in Java, Python, JavaScript and C++, including hands-on work with distributed query engines and columnar databases. He contributed significant features to the well-known Apache Arrow project (Gandiva module), wrote production ODBC/JDBC drivers from scratch, and helped maintain a company fork of Trino/Presto integrating object storage. Comfortable across the stack, he applies strong test design, concurrency and performance-focused practices, and has deep experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Postgres/MySQL, Aerospike and cloud tooling. At Platform Builders he helped cut incident recovery times by 60–70% using observability platforms, and at Simbiose he worked on NoSQL engines, query optimization and chaos/performance testing. He blends pragmatic engineering with formal patterns (SOLID, Clean Architecture) and a track record of open-source contributions that influence real-world analytics tooling.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - MBA, Computer Software Engineering, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - MBA, Computer Software Engineering at MBA USP/Esalq
Tecnólogo, Análise de Sistemas, Tecnólogo, Análise de Sistemas at UniCEUB - Centro Universitário de Brasília
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:205 reviews, 23 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the implementation of new functions and features within the Apache Arrow project's Gandiva module. Their work includes implementing functions like `last_day`, SHA1 and SHA256 hashing, `castTIME`, `CONVERT_TO`, and conversion to hexadecimal representations. They also added alias for existing functions and addressed issues related to the build process.
Contributions:34 releases, 3 PRs, 115 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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