Fernando Freire
Founding Engineer at TEEM
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Freire is a founding engineer in Portland with 13 years of experience building and leading software teams at TEEM, Armory, and Nike. He pairs pragmatic product-facing front-end work—illustrated by UI contributions to the popular open-source Spinnaker Deck—with a deep interest in functional programming and Haskell, enabling him to span user interfaces and robust backend designs. At Armory he progressed into engineering leadership and at Nike he led the Nike+ platform, demonstrating a track record of shipping large-scale, customer-facing systems. He embraces a hands-on, experimental mindset—summed up on GitHub as “I do things and sometimes they work out”—favoring iterative refactors that reduce developer friction. That combination of shipping-first pragmatism, language-level curiosity, and leadership makes him effective at turning complex requirements into usable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Portland
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
typescript310
typescripts10
typescript210
frontend-development10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
angularjs8
fest6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/deck
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 11 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the UI of the Spinnaker Deck application. Their work focused on refactoring the insight menu into buttons, adding an overridable decorator to a form, fixing an issue in the console log modal, fixing state updates for pipeline tags, and ensuring users are not warned of their success. The user also modified and updated the stage configurations.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
dogonthehorizon/dotfiles-vim
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:49 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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