Thomás Horta
Senior Android Software Engineer at Uber
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolThomás Horta is a Senior Android Software Engineer with over a decade of engineering experience and 8+ years focused on Android, building apps that reach millions of users across banking, education, consumer electronics, and media. He’s shipped high-traffic, high-quality products—such as a banking app with 10M+ downloads and 99.8% crash-free users—and contributed to the open-source WordPress Android app, improving editor features and test coverage. A pragmatic advocate for modern Android practices, he has introduced Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose, modularization, and a testing culture across multiple organizations. He combines hands-on implementation (including native C/C++ work for camera features and NEON optimizations) with mentoring, cross-team leadership, and strong product collaboration. Known for diving deep into complex problems, Thomás balances performance, accessibility, and maintainability while helping teams adopt scalable architectures. Based in São Paulo, he’s eager to expand beyond mobile and bring his rapid learning and technical stewardship to broader technology stacks.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at FEIExchange Student Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exchange Student Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Rochester
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
ios10
wordpress10
java10
android-developer10
javas10
junit10
android-app10
android10
jtest10
android-developers10
mobile10
iphone-app10
application10
ui-design9
mediarecorder6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
WordPress for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:338 reviews, 138 commits, 384 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomás contributed to the WordPress for Android application, primarily focusing on features within the post editor. Their work included adding and implementing settings for parent pages within the editor, as well as refactoring UI elements to improve code reusability. They also integrated a page parent selection activity and implemented a mechanism to track and display the parent title within the editor settings. Additionally, the user added unit tests to validate changes.
oauth2-authenticationwordpressandroidsecretmobile
thomashorta/newsapi_sample_android
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
A Sample Android App using the News API.
Contributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 4 months
apisample-androidnews-apiandroidandroid-app
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