Sidney Ferreira
Senior Software Engineer at Wealthsimple
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSidney Ferreira (known as Sidz) is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of cross-platform experience building polished, high-performance mobile and web applications. He’s led major React Native projects—including steering a ground-up rebuild of TED’s flagship app—and now contributes to Wealthsimple’s engineering efforts from Burnaby, BC. Comfortable with native iOS/Android work, TypeScript, Redux, testing frameworks, and developer tooling, he emphasizes reliability, robustness, and elegant UX-driven implementations. Sidz has a track record of creating reusable component libraries, CI/deployment tooling and productivity-saving protocols that cut routine work hours. He pairs strong front-end design sensibilities with backend and DevOps experience from earlier roles, making him effective across the stack. Colleagues describe him as a curious daily learner who favors cohesive, well-crafted solutions over band-aid fixes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor degree Information Technology and Systems, Bachelor degree Information Technology and Systems at Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
sqlite10
react-native10
databases10
database-administration10
database-driver10
persistence10
database-design10
database10
wordpress9
react9
nodejs8
testing8
filter6
php6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sidferreira/umbrella_idea
Nov 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 9 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 10 months
tedconf/react-native-video
Sep 2019 - Sep 2024
A <Video /> component for react-native
Contributions:23 pushes, 27 branches, 10 tags in 5 years 1 month
react-nativereactvideocomponent-video
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