Nelson Ferreira
Engineering Team Lead at The SXEmacs Project
City of New Rochelle, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Ferreira is an engineering team lead with 15+ years designing and delivering high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and developer-facing platforms, currently leading teams at Bloomberg. He combines deep architecture and hands-on engineering experience—from RESTful APIs, CI/CD and JNI bindings to front-end QML contributions on the popular gPodder project—with a proven ability to choose pragmatic technologies and drive quality through process improvements. Nelson has a track record of shipping production features in real-time distribution systems and championing engineering best practices across large organizations such as EMC/Dell EMC and SMARTS. An active open-source contributor and longtime maintainer on projects like SXEmacs and gPodder, he brings a coder’s attention to detail alongside leadership in requirements, planning and mentorship. Notably, he has helped reduce static analysis defects to zero in open-source tooling and contributed UI/UX fixes to widely used podcast client software.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSE, Software Engineering, MSE, Software Engineering at Brandeis UniversityTechnical, Information Technology, Technical, Information Technology at Escola Secundária 2 AlvercaUndergraduate, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Undergraduate, Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, French, English
Github Skills (6)
qml10
javascript10
ui-design9
qt9
interface-design9
user-interface9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gpodder/gpodder
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
The gPodder podcast client.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nelson primarily contributed to the QML UI of the gPodder podcast client. Their work included implementing features such as showing playback positions and adding a shownotes button to the media player. They also addressed landscape mode display issues and incorporated a horizontal line for section separation within the UI. Furthermore, the user added a separate login page for gpodder.net integration and made various checks for undefined/null objects.
gpodderpodcast-clientpythonpodcast
zevlg/SXEmacs
Nov 2010 - Aug 2012
Contributions:508 commits in 1 year 8 months
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