Douglas Ritter
Lead Developer at Springer Nature Group
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolDouglas Ritter is a hands-on Lead Developer with 11 years of experience building and improving mobile and web products, currently leading engineering at Springer Nature from Lisbon. He has a strong track record scaling teams and products in agile environments, progressing from individual Android developer to staff and lead roles at Talkdesk and Netshoes. Known for improving UX and reliability—once cutting crash rates from 30% to under 1% for an 800k+ user app—he blends product-focused engineering with CI/CD and quality practices. He helped launch first-of-company mobile products, established testing and release pipelines, and introduced metrics-driven improvements that boosted conversions and revenue. Comfortable across native Android/iOS, backend integrations and team processes, he pairs technical leadership with operational rigor. His background combining design-minded UX work and hands-on architecture makes him effective at turning product goals into measurable engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de LisboaSystems for Internet Computer Science, Systems for Internet Computer Science at IFRS - Campus Porto Alegre
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (12)
camp10
react7
android-emulator5
frontend4
java4
android-sdk3
voice3
kotlin3
android3
sdk3
twilio1
sms1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dougritter/marvel-kotlin-mvvm-databinding
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
marcelorbenites/besafe
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes in 13 days
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