Fernando Freire
Founding Engineer at TEEM
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Freire is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure, distributed systems, and product delivery pipelines from startups to enterprise. Based in Portland, he blends hands-on engineering (FP/PLT/Haskell journeyperson) with people leadership—having grown teams, led cross-functional roadmaps, and cut release cycles in half at Armory. He co-created pipeline-as-code and lifecycle tooling for Spinnaker, contributed front-end improvements to the widely used Spinnaker Deck UI, and has deep experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability platforms. At Nike he built and scaled platform tooling (signal_analog) and drove internal community programs, talks, and adoption that multiplied usage across teams. Known for mentoring contributors—from Google Summer of Code students to internal engineers—he pairs pragmatic product sense with a functional-programming mindset. His pragmatic motto, “I do things and sometimes they work out,” reflects a bias toward shipping real outcomes and learning quickly.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Portland
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
angularjs8
fest6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/deck
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 11 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the UI of the Spinnaker Deck application. Their work focused on refactoring the insight menu into buttons, adding an overridable decorator to a form, fixing an issue in the console log modal, fixing state updates for pipeline tags, and ensuring users are not warned of their success. The user also modified and updated the stage configurations.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
dogonthehorizon/dotfiles-vim
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:49 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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