Fernando Witzke
Staff Software Engineer at Mighty Networks
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolFernando Witzke is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building web applications and driving engineering quality through test-driven development, continuous integration, and pair programming. Based in Calgary, he has progressed from consultancy and founder roles to senior and staff positions at companies like Clio and Mighty Networks, bringing practical leadership to product-focused engineering teams. Fernando is a hands-on front-end contributor to notable open-source Angular projects, improving map-related directives by hardening tests and enhancing UI/marker styling for Google Maps and Leaflet integrations. He combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with a track record of shipping reliable, user-facing features and quietly champions robustness by catching tricky edge cases in geospatial data handling.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
test-driven-design10
front-end-development10
google-maps-api10
leaflet10
angularjs10
ui-design9
html9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tombatossals/angular-leaflet-directive
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
AngularJS directive to embed an interact with maps managed by Leaflet library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the testing and refactoring of the markers directive specification. They focused on detecting and validating errors in the latitude and longitude values of markers. These changes involved modifying test files to ensure the angular-leaflet-directive correctly handles various error conditions, including undefined, null, and NaN values, as well as non-numeric data in the marker coordinates.
angularjs-directiveleaflet
angular-ui/angular-google-maps
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
AngularJS directives for the Google Maps Javascript API
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, specifically focusing on the styling and implementation of UI elements within the Google Maps directive. Their commits demonstrate the ability to modify existing components to incorporate new features, such as marker labels, and adapt the styling. These changes included adjustments to the main stylesheet as well as the minified javascript files, enhancing the visual presentation and user experience.
angularjs-directivegoogle-maps-javascript-api
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