Gonçalo Ferreira
Android Developer And Partner at WATERDOG
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGonçalo Ferreira is an experienced Android developer and partner at WATERDOG with 14 years building mobile-first products and native apps across Android and iOS, and complementary backend and frontend skills in Kotlin/Ktor, Python/Django, React, Svelte and TypeScript. He began in mobile extensions for enterprise ERP using .NET Compact Framework and evolved into consumer and citizen-facing Android apps, including work on ALERT Pollens® and MyALERT®. A hands-on engineer, he contributes to notable open-source Android tooling—improving usability and architecture in projects like JakeWharton’s Telecine by adding touch visualization, refactoring resources, and introducing dependency-provided components. Based in Matosinhos, Porto, he combines deep platform expertise with product-minded craftsmanship and a Master’s in Computer Engineering. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to bridge UX improvements with backend robustness.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Engineering, Master, Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
android10
dependency-injection10
java10
analytics9
refactoring8
listview6
bitmap6
horizontal-scrolling6
user-interface6
radio-buttons6
android-widget6
account-manager6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JakeWharton/Telecine
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Record full-resolution video on your Android devices.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 34 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gonçalo primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the Android application. They added a "Show touches" option, allowing users to visualize touch interactions. Furthermore, the user refactored code, moved hardcoded strings to resources, and addressed analytics integration, specifically correcting an action related to showing touches. Finally, they moved the ContentResolver to a dependency provider.
android-devicesresolutionandroidvideorecord
monxalo/android-section-adapter
Sep 2011 - Sep 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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