João Forja
Full Stack Engineer at Sherlock Protocol
Faro, Faro, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Forja is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience who specializes in aligning software delivery with business goals and enabling fast, validated iterations. He has led product-critical efforts such as Sherlock Protocol’s Auditor Portfolio and a real-time judging app, and previously built streaming clients and APIs for video platforms. A pragmatic front-end contributor to the popular Excalidraw project, he focuses on interface interactions and UX reliability—skills that surface across his work in fast-paced startups and consultancy roles. João combines a strong academic grounding in computer engineering with hands-on leadership in engineering teams and a practiced emphasis on delivering meaningful releases that reduce risk and accelerate ROI.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 17/20, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 17/20 at ISEL - Instituto Superior De Engenharia De Lisboa
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
canvas10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
collaboration9
whiteboard9
diagram8
drawing8
html6
msoffice6
mongodb6
aggregation-framework6
mongodb-query6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
excalidraw/excalidraw
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:João primarily contributed to the front-end of the Excalidraw project. Their commits focus on bug fixes related to element interaction and selection, particularly concerning bounding box calculations and drag-and-drop behavior. The user also implemented new features, such as enhanced aspect ratio tools and improvements to arrow binding. This work demonstrates a focus on improving the user interface and interaction of the whiteboard application.
diagramsdrawnhand-drawnproductivitycollaboration
Jnforja/infinite-scroll-react-app
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Repository with code from article about building an infinite scroll in React using hooks and Intersection Observers
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 months
reactintersection-observerscrollreact-hookshooks
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