Nelson Da Costa
Staff Engineer at PayFit France
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNelson Da Costa is a Staff Engineer at PayFit in Paris with a decade of software development and technical leadership experience. He excels at navigating the engineer-manager balance, combining hands-on delivery with cross-functional coordination to ship reliable systems. His career spans roles at Sunday (Staff Engineer, then Engineering Manager), OCTO Technology, Eleven Labs, Alti, and Sopra Group, giving him a broad view of both consulting and product-driven development. Based in Paris, he brings a strong foundation in computing from Napier University and IUT Montreuil, enabling him to tackle complex socio-technical challenges. Nelson blends technical depth with a pragmatic leadership approach, mentoring teams while driving architectural and delivery outcomes across fintech and tech services. He is driven by building scalable, maintainable software and aligning technical decisions with business impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Informatique, DUT, Informatique at IUT MontreuilBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computing, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computing at Napier University
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (46)
kotlin9
php9
ddd9
symfony8
bundle8
java8
cqrs7
event-sourcing7
spring-boot7
symfony-bundle7
sublime6
guid5
vagrant5
virtualbox5
trellis5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
baruica/gym-java
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
Used for practicing Java and DDD. State-based repositories.
Contributions:124 commits, 39 PRs, 162 pushes in 2 years 10 months
spring-bootrepositoriesdddpracticingjava
baruica/xml
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 releases, 64 pushes, 6 tags in 5 years
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