Denzil Ferreira
Software Designer at HealthRhythms
Oulu, Mainland Finland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDenzil Ferreira is a software designer and researcher with 11 years of experience bridging mobile engineering, ubiquitous computing, and human-centered data science to improve wellbeing. He leads R&D and mobile architecture work—currently at Solita and as Mobile Software Architect for HealthRhythms—while maintaining an active research affiliation that founded and directed the Community Instrumentation & Awareness group at the University of Oulu. His expertise spans context-aware systems, sensor-driven inference, usability testing, and machine learning, grounded in a track record of scaling the AWARE framework for large-scale mobile sensing. Comfortable toggling between hands-on SDK development, prototyping and academic supervision, he has contributed to interdisciplinary projects with UCLA, CMU and Cambridge. Notably, he combines production-grade Android/iOS engineering with academic rigor, having turned ubicomp research into deployable tools for mental health and social sensing. Based in Oulu, Finland, he brings a rare mix of product-focused craftsmanship and long-term empirical study design.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Technology, Computer Science (Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing), Doctor of Technology, Computer Science (Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing) at Oulun yliopisto / University of OuluMaster's, Human-Computer Interaction, Master's, Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMajor, Computer Science, Major, Computer Science at Universidade da Madeira
Spanish, Finnish, French, English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (155)
windows10
noise10
collaboration10
android-client10
location10
clap10
background-service10
screeps10
dart10
sensor10
steam10
locked10
moments10
cross-platform10
pulseaudio10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
denzilferreira/com.aware.plugin.studentlife.audio_final
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
This plugin detects if the user is engaged in a conversation or not. It follows a duty cycle of 1 minute audio collection, 3 minutes pause. It does not store the raw audio (it's disabled).
Contributions:54 commits, 11 PRs, 45 pushes in 3 years 6 months
disabledpausedutypocketmineconversation
denzilferreira/com.aware.plugin.contacts_list
Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
This plugin collects a snapshot of the participant's contact list information. The phone numbers are hashed with the same strategy as the call logs.
Contributions:14 PRs, 71 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
phonestrategypluginparticipantcontact-list
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.