Ferdi Ladeira
Software Engineer at SMARTMOBIWARE LTD
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolFerdi Ladeira is a software engineer with 11 years of hands-on development experience and a prior track record in senior management at global, listed companies. He returned to programming to blend deep business insight with practical engineering, focusing on Android, Java, JavaScript/Node.js and backend cloud architectures. Ferdi has built and maintained production mobile payment and coaching apps, and implemented IoT-to-cloud pipelines using AWS services like Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB and Redshift. He favors Agile delivery that produces value daily and mentors developers to build—not just plan—robust software. A coder since the MS-DOS era, he combines legacy-language roots with modern cloud-native practices, often taking contract roles that ship real features for payments, coaching and industrial IoT. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he brings a rare blend of C-suite perspective and day-to-day engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Cape TownMatric, Matric at Christian Brothers College Cape Town
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Github Skills (42)
uinavigationbar9
plugin9
pos9
phonegap-plugin9
apache-cordova8
wordpress-plugin8
cordova-plugin8
send-sms8
sketch7
cordova7
phonegap7
wordpress7
photoshop7
coredata6
android6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ferdil/cordova-plugin-fcm
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
pushcordovapush-notificationsandroidfcm
ferdil/cordova-plugin-adcolony
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
AdColony ads for Apache Cordova
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 years 9 months
adscordovaapache-cordovajavascriptandroid
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