Joao Ferreira
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Kraken
London, England, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJoao Ferreira is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in London with 12 years of experience building high-performance front-end and full-stack products across startups and large organisations. At Kraken he progressed from Senior Frontend Engineer to leading teams that shipped Kraken Pro, driving architecture, CI/CD, AB testing and 24/7 reliability for a pro trading platform. He blends hands-on React UI expertise (including open-source contributions like react-archer) with product-focused engineering management and a strong background in data tooling from roles at Bumble and Globo.com. A TDD practitioner, Scrum Master and MBA-trained project manager, Joao pairs lean processes with UX sensitivity and a musician’s creative curiosity to improve usability and developer flow.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduação em Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação, Desenvolvimento de Equipes, Graduação em Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação, Desenvolvimento de Equipes at UNI-AnhangueraGerenciamento de Projetos (MBA), Project Management, Gerenciamento de Projetos (MBA), Project Management at UniGap
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
prop10
props10
react10
dom-manipulation9
arrow-js8
apache-arrow8
arrows8
jes7
jestjs7
jtest7
html6
ctrlp6
vim6
styled-components6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pierpo/react-archer
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
🏹 Draw arrows between React elements 🖋
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joao primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `react-archer` repository, which focuses on drawing arrows between React elements. Their work included implementing a new feature for arrow labels, allowing the use of any React Node as a value, and updating the example application. They also improved the comparison of relations in the `ArcherElement` component and added and removed resize event listeners in `ArcherContainer.js`. The contributions demonstrate expertise in React component development and UI enhancements.
react-componentarrowsreactdrawelements
jrfferreira/emacs-config
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:63 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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