Filipe Brito Ferreira
Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 11 years building streaming platforms, real estate marketplaces, and AI-powered products. Proven track record delivering scalable systems across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS at companies including Sky, Roku, and Property Finder.
Professional Journey
Explore my career progression and educational background
Full-Stack Engineer
Growth Engineering team at Property Finder, the largest real estate marketplace in the UAE. Owning SEO, performance, and feature development for user acquisition.
Key Achievements:
- Record Share of Voice: SEO work contributed to the company reaching new records in share of sessions and share of voice, pushing competitors further down the rankings. Recognized by the CEO as an exceptional result.Record share of voice and share of sessions in organic search
- UGC Feature Launch: Led the User-Generated Content feature from early product discussions and technical design through implementation to production launch.
- CMS API Performance: Restructured how CMS content gets fetched and served on SEO-critical pages.Response time from 500ms to 5ms (99% improvement)
- Search Page Speed: Fixed render-blocking resources, optimized images, and added progressive loading.33% reduction in search page load time
Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack & Platform)
Worked on Roku's streaming platform, building AI-powered customer support tools and web frameworks used across multiple device platforms.
Key Achievements:
- AI Chatbot Implementation: Reduced customer support tickets by 40%, enhancing user experience for a major entertainment streaming platform.40% reduction in support tickets, 25% improvement in customer satisfaction
- Web Core Framework Development: Built reusable tools and frameworks that improved engineering productivity across multiple teams.30% reduction in development time for new features
Lead Software Engineer
Technical lead for a cross-platform numerology application, overseeing development across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
Key Achievements:
- Cross-Platform Architecture: Designed unified architecture enabling 90% code sharing across platforms90% code reuse, 50% faster feature delivery
Software Engineer (Streaming Platform)
Full-stack engineer working on multiple high-traffic streaming platforms including Sky GO and NOW TV, serving millions of users across various devices and territories.
Key Achievements:
- Apple TV Launch: Successfully delivered NOW TV on Apple TV platform ahead of schedule.On-time delivery, 99.9% uptime achieved
- European Consolidation Project: Reduced 12 separate territory apps to 2 unified applications.83% reduction in codebases, 60% faster feature deployment
- GraphQL Middleware: Built GraphQL layer achieving 99.9% availability.99.9% uptime, 50% reduction in API response times
Front-End Engineer
Contract frontend developer focused on feature development and A/B testing for a major travel booking platform.
Key Achievements:
- Conversion Rate Optimization: Implemented A/B tests that improved booking conversion rates.15% improvement in conversion rates
Web Developer
Full-stack developer responsible for web applications, data platforms, and DevOps infrastructure in a fast-paced data analytics environment.
Key Achievements:
- Pangea Data Platform: Built scalable data matching platform handling large datasets.Processing 10M+ records daily with sub-second response times
- Infrastructure Automation: Implemented Kubernetes-based infrastructure reducing deployment time.80% reduction in deployment time, 99.9% uptime
PROJECTS I WORKED ON
A showcase of impactful projects spanning streaming platforms, AI solutions, and data analytics
Property Finder: Growth Engineering
Front-end engineer on Property Finder's Growth team. Cut search page load time by 33%, improved CMS API from 500ms to 5ms, led UGC feature to production, and helped push the company to record share of voice in SEO.
Cue App
Technical lead for a cross-platform numerology app on iOS, Android, and Web. 90% code sharing from a single codebase, 50% faster feature releases, and a 4-person team.
Roku AI Powered Support Chat
Built an AI chatbot for Roku using Claude V2 and GPT-3/4 via AWS Connect. Cut support tickets by 40%, bumped satisfaction by 25%, and hit 95% query resolution accuracy.
NOW TV / Peacock TV
Rebuilt NOW TV's Apple TV and Roku apps with React Native, slashed CI/CD from 25 hours to 1.5 hours, consolidated 12 European territory apps into 2 (83% less code), and built a GraphQL BFF with 99.9% uptime.
Sky Go
Built the Windows and Mac Sky Go streaming app with Electron and React. Single codebase serving 4 regions, automated code-signing CLI, satellite box local streaming that cut CDN costs, and 99.5% crash-free sessions.
Cambridge Analytica / SCL Group
Sole web developer for 4 high-profile websites at Cambridge Analytica/SCL Group. Built the Pangea data platform (10M+ records/day), deployed AWS + K8s infrastructure with 99.9% uptime, and automated deployments (80% faster).
Pangea Data Platform
Built a data matching platform processing 10M+ records daily with sub-second response times on Scala, Drill, and Hadoop. Worked with the UK ICO for 2+ years pre-GDPR to shape data classification standards.
Trump Campaign 2016
Technical lead for Syphon, a data visualization platform powering the 2016 Trump campaign's media strategy across social and traditional channels — achieving $0.20 spent for every $1 spent by the opposition.
Ted Cruz Campaign 2015
Developer on SCL Group's data-driven campaign platform for Ted Cruz — OCEAN personality profiles for ~300 million people, automated phone calling tied to voter profiles, and nationwide ad targeting across social and traditional media. Helped deliver the Iowa caucus upset, where Cruz defeated Trump at 4-1 odds.
LATEST BLOG POSTS
Thoughts on software engineering, developer tools, and lessons from the field
March 28, 2026
Stop Hardcoding Secrets in Your Shell: Use Bitwarden CLI
A simple way to manage shell secrets using Bitwarden CLI and macOS Keychain, no more plaintext exports, no more anxiety every time you open your `.zshrc`.
November 17, 2025
Introducing @fbritoferreira/strapi: A Lightweight TypeScript Client for Strapi CMS v5
Open-source TypeScript client for Strapi CMS v5 with full type safety, CRUD + upsert operations, advanced filtering, i18n support, and minimal dependencies. Built to eliminate boilerplate in content-driven apps.
September 8, 2024
From Coding Challenges to Real-World Skills: Rethinking the Modern Interview Process
‘After 250+ interviews across a decade as both interviewer and candidate, here is why LeetCode-style challenges fail to assess real-world engineering ability, and what companies should do instead.’