Levi Ferreira
Director Of Engineering at Wikimedia Foundation
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLevi Ferreira is a Director of Engineering based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building developer platforms, productivity tooling, and scalable engineering orgs. He has led large teams and shipped Sunrise, an internal Backstage-based developer portal used by over a thousand engineers, while delivering multi-million euro savings through vendor negotiations, license optimizations, and infrastructure improvements. Comfortable in TypeScript and Ruby, Levi blends hands-on coding with people leadership—growing engineering managers, increasing team diversity, and mentoring cross-company leaders. His background spans startups and scale-ups (CTO roles, Shopify, Zalando) and he has a track record of turning operational challenges into measurable business impact, including GPU allocation for ML workflows and security/SBOM programs. Starting to code at eight and founding ventures at twelve, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and a pragmatic focus on shipping excellent solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Analysis and development of systems, Web Development Analysis and development of systems at Escola Técnica Estadual Parque da Juventude
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (38)
refer10
lms9
bus9
php9
publisher8
data-infrastructure7
developer-console7
java7
restful7
api7
axon-framework6
message-passing6
abstraction6
kafka6
documentation5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
natuelabs/intelipost
Jul 2015 - Aug 2019
Gem for the Intelipost API
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
railsapigemruby
project-melody/datetime
Mar 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
datetimejavascriptmelody
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