Summary
Paulo Sousa is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur based in the Greater Bilbao area, bringing 8 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms. He founded Mailfinder.io, growing it to over 10,000 global clients and leading end-to-end product development using PHP, AWS, and Angular. In his current role as Software Architect, Platform at The Mom Project, he designs scalable Terraform/AWS architectures, resolves bottlenecks, and enhances observability and security through OpenTelemetry and SoC2 compliance. Previously, as Head of Software Engineering at negociei.com.vc, he cut legacy app loading times from 1.2s to 200ms and introduced CI/CD, cloud migration, and proactive monitoring. He spans the full stack—from PHP/Laravel/Symfony/Rails to TypeScript/React/Vue—with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, often shipping cross-product component libraries and backend gateways for payments.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Árabe, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish