João Magalhães
Senior Frontend Developer at Refine Studio
Ceará, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Magalhães is a Senior Frontend Developer with 6 years of experience building performant, maintainable React and Next.js applications, primarily for Web3/DeFi clients. He blends full-stack sensibility with a frontend focus, shaping architecture, coding standards, and a testing culture that brought measurable improvements in delivery speed and reliability. João has shipped production features and stability fixes across high-availability systems using tools like Node.js, Django, RabbitMQ and Redis, and he’s comfortable owning both user-facing UI and backend integrations. An active open-source contributor and maintainer—helping projects like cmdk and serving as a maintainer at houseform—he emphasizes accessibility and developer ergonomics (adding features like aria-activedescendant and asChild). Based in Ceará, Brazil, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring that raises team technical maturity and reduces incidents in critical systems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
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javascript10
react10
accessibilityservice10
combobox9
jtest8
jes8
jestjs8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pacocoursey/cmdk
Aug 2022 - Jul 2023
Fast, unstyled command menu React component.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 14 PRs, 22 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:João primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `cmdk` React component library. Their work focused on enhancing the component's functionality, specifically addressing issues related to controlled item values and adding features like `aria-activedescendant` to the input element. The user also refactored the codebase, addressed rendering issues, and added new features such as the `asChild` prop. These contributions show a focus on improving the accessibility, usability, and overall quality of the React component.
react-componentunstyledradix-uireactcombobox
joaom00/JavaScript
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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