Ricardo Magalhaes
Senior Frontend Developer at Mercury
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Magalhaes is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Montreal with 14 years of experience crafting scalable, accessible, and high-performance web interfaces, primarily in the React ecosystem. He has driven front-end migrations, TypeScript adoptions, and CI improvements at companies like Mercury, Wealthsimple, and Shopify, and has deep experience building reusable component libraries and complex CSS architectures. Accessibility (a11y) and UI performance are core to his work, and he pairs that with practical backend familiarity in Node/Express, GraphQL and Next.js to deliver end-to-end client-facing features. Ricardo also builds developer tooling—authoring projects like firstaidgit.io—and advocates for mental health and thoughtful downtime, reflecting a human-centered approach to engineering. An avid trail-runner and typography writer, he brings a designer’s sensitivity to UI detail alongside a strong engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master Multimedia Communication, Master Multimedia Communication at Universidade de Aveiro
English, Portuguese, French, German
Github Skills (66)
sane10
payment9
serve9
css9
react9
mercurial9
react-component8
javascript8
recharts8
survivejs8
data-visualisation8
sass8
whiteboard8
typescript8
quill8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
magalhini/blog
Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
magalhini/react-typewriter-js
Jun 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
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