Erick Zanardo is an engineering lead based in São Paulo with 13 years of hands-on experience building and shipping mobile and full-stack applications. He has progressed from developer roles to leadership at Very Good Ventures, combining technical delivery, founding-engineer experience, and short senior stints at startups like Shorebird and Invertase. Erick contributes to open-source Flutter/Dart projects—adding Android gamepad support to the Flame engine and improving test automation for VeryGoodOpenSource’s CLI—demonstrating a focus on reliability and developer tooling. He has strong game and UI experience (e.g., Google’s Pinball demo) alongside backend integrations, reflecting a full-stack mindset. Known for translating product mechanics into robust code and tests, he balances feature delivery with maintainability and test coverage. Fluent in Brazilian engineering culture and experienced managing distributed delivery, he brings pragmatic leadership grounded in deep Flutter/Dart expertise.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel em Ciência da computação, Bacharel em Ciência da computação at Faculdade Anhaguera
Contributions:3 releases, 1765 reviews, 1334 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Erick primarily focused on adding support for gamepad functionality on the Android platform, creating a new `gamepad.dart` file and modifying `flame.dart` to integrate it. Their contributions also involved adding documentation for the gamepad API. Later, the user removed the gamepad functionality from the flame library.
Google I/O 2022 Pinball game built with Flutter and Firebase
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 113 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Erick primarily focused on implementing features and mechanics for the game, including game over mechanics, ball reset logic, and various UI elements. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in updating dependencies, adding new components, and integrating features like a bonus word. They also implemented aspects related to mobile controls and audio integration, covering front-end and some back-end implementations.
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Erick Zanardo - Engineering Lead at Very Good Ventures