José Ferrão
Chief Technology Officer at UNO Platform
Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Ferrão is a multidisciplinary technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with a decade of hands-on experience spanning computer graphics, robotics, computer vision, AI, and full-stack development. He combines academic depth—working toward a PhD in Computer Engineering—with practical product delivery, leading cloud-native, microservices-driven platforms and LLM/RAG-based tooling at UNO Platform and Kiwa Portugal. As creator and maintainer of nunuStudio, a WebXR-capable 3D editing and game engine, he has contributed notable enhancements to three.js and geospatial visualization libraries, demonstrating deep expertise in WebGL and interactive graphics. His toolkit ranges from C++ and Python to Go, Dart/Flutter and TypeScript, enabling cross-domain systems from embedded robotics (ROS, SLAM) to scalable web services and IoT analytics. He mentors engineering teams, shapes architecture and security standards, and still spends significant time on electronics and open-source engineering—bringing researcher curiosity to production-grade systems. Based in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, he blends research-driven problem solving with pragmatic product execution across both front-end UI and low-level systems work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Advanced training course of the doctoral program in computer engineering, Postgraduate Degree, Advanced training course of the doctoral program in computer engineering at Universidade de Aveiro
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Github Skills (15)
webgl10
threejs10
typescript10
javascript10
texture10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
geolocation10
3d10
front-end-development9
game-engine9
html9
engine9
user-interface9
image-processing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tentone/geo-three
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Tile based geographic world map visualization library for threejs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 13 reviews, 289 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:José implemented new features and refactored code for the `geo-three` library. Their contributions include introducing classes, cleaning up code and adding support for browser without offscreen canvas. Additionally, they updated example usage and configurations for existing and new providers. This is a library to create Tile based geographic world map visualization.
visualizationvisualization-librarymap-tilesworld-map3d-tiles
tentone/nunuStudio
Feb 2016 - Oct 2022
Web powered cross-platform 3D, WebXR game engine.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 2 reviews, 4854 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:José focused on implementing and updating UI components within the nunuStudio game engine. They added functionality for loading and manipulating images, including implementing support for blob-based image loading and handling alpha channels. They also made changes to the texture and material loading mechanisms and implemented visual effects and options, like a water and a VR controller.
webglgame-developmentcross-platformgame-enginewebxr
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