Michel Feinstein
Applications Lead
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Feinstein is an Applications Lead and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile, embedded and backend systems across startups and enterprise finance. He led the creation of a low-latency Flutter trading app at BTG Pactual that grew MAU by 60% in its first year, founded an IoT-enabled water-telemetry startup, and has consulted internationally on projects spanning Flutter, Java, C/C++ and cloud serverless architectures. A hands-on technical leader, he shapes team culture, processes and security practices while still contributing code—his open-source work includes meaningful enhancements to Google Maps Java client and Firebase Flutter plugins. Curious by nature, Michel blends hardware-level electronics experience with modern mobile and cloud engineering to deliver pragmatic, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Hebrew
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Github Skills (22)
google-cloud-firestore10
client-library10
api-design10
flutter-apps10
crashlytics10
java10
javas10
firestore10
flutter-game10
dart10
firebase10
flutter10
mobile-development9
documentation7
flutter-navigation6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/flutterfire
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
🔥 A collection of Firebase plugins for Flutter apps.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michel primarily contributed to the `firebase_crashlytics` and `cloud_firestore` packages within the FlutterFire repository. Their contributions included updating documentation, refactoring code to improve clarity, and adding functionality such as the `[]` operator to `DocumentSnapshot`. They also updated example code to include missing "recordError" functionality within the `firebase_crashlytics` example, showcasing mobile application development expertise within the Firebase ecosystem.
firebaseflutter-appsflutterdartgoogle
googlemaps/google-maps-services-java
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Java client library for Google Maps API Web Services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michel primarily focused on enhancing the `google-maps-services-java` library's functionality related to the Directions API. They added features like setting departure time as "now" and introduced support for Place IDs, allowing for more flexible location specifications. Additionally, the user implemented a method to create waypoints from Place IDs. Finally, they fixed minor documentation issues.
google-maps-apijavawebserviceclient-library
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