Nelson Fernandes
Software Engineer - Frontend at ESL FACEIT Group - EFG
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Fernandes is a frontend software engineer with over a decade of experience and more than eight years focused on modern web interfaces using TypeScript, React, Next.js and GraphQL. He has driven production migrations and developer experience improvements—most notably leading the Next.js checkout rewrite and Nx monorepo adoption at Farfetch while also enhancing CI/CD and observability to reduce critical memory issues. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs UI craftsmanship (Emotion, Playwright, Testing Library) with backend-aware tooling like Docker and Jenkins, and has contributed mobile UI features and tests to the popular open-source GitPoint app. Based in Porto, he combines a product-minded approach with a continual appetite for learning new areas of the software lifecycle, from DX to QA and infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Student Computer Science, Undergraduate Student Computer Science at College of CharlestonBachelor of Technology - BTech Internet Systems, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Internet Systems at Instituto Federal da Paraíba
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
github10
android10
ui-design9
jes8
jtest8
jestjs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gitpoint/git-point
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
GitHub in your pocket :iphone:
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)Contributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nelson contributed to the project by implementing new features and refactoring existing ones. They added the display of issue/PR numbers in the issue list, changed the UI for displaying languages with flags, and introduced a list of starred repositories in the user profile. Their work involved modifying React Native components and screens, suggesting a focus on enhancing the mobile application's functionality and user interface. The user also added tests for some components.
github-clientpocketgitpointiphonereact-native
nersoh/rails-blog-example
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 2 years 2 months
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