João De Magalhães
Staff Software Engineer at Nomad
Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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RockstarJoão De Magalhães is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable web platforms and developer-facing products across Brazil’s tech scene. He couples hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, React, NestJS and GraphQL with platform-level work—delivering a Data-as-a-Product service that unifies multiple databases and streams via Kafka for internal teams. A former Head of Engineering and founding developer at Rocketseat, João has led architecture, hiring, and large-scale migrations while shipping content delivery, DRM and payment systems under high growth. He’s comfortable across backend and frontend, having built BPMN/DMN visualizations and contributed UI components to popular open-source projects like unform. Known for turning legacy constraints into pragmatic, scalable solutions, he emphasizes developer productivity and data-driven product decisions. Based in Itajaí, he’s a lifelong learner and digital artisan who thrives on complex problems that impact real users.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
forms10
react10
testing9
react-native-component6
react-native6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
unform/unform
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Performance-focused API for React forms 🚀
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 21 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:João contributed to the React form library by implementing and testing a `Textarea` component. They added the component, wrote unit tests, and then updated the component to show a deprecation warning and suggest using the `Input` component with the `multiline` prop. Furthermore, they fixed an issue with how form context was handled when unregistering fields.
apireactreact-nativefocusedperformance
jpdemagalhaes/my-tvshows
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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