Alex De Sousa
Senior Software Engineer at The Broken Link OÜ
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlex De Sousa is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient backend systems, currently working at Sona and running his own consultancy focused on Elixir/Phoenix LiveView and product-led growth. He has founded startups and shipped production systems across domains—from real-time crypto miner monitoring and Forex trading integrations to document automation and mobile apps for environmental impact. A pragmatic polyglot, Alex pairs deep Elixir expertise with experience in C++, Python, Java, and Flutter, and has led small teams to deliver refactors, SCIM provisioning, and payment integrations. He’s quietly entrepreneurial, developing an AI SaaS tool while maintaining open-source work like the Yggdrasil pub/sub server, and is based in Barcelona where he blends hands-on engineering with product-minded problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Universidad Simón BolívarUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Portuguese, Polish, Catalan, Esperanto
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elixir
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pattern-matching
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Github Skills (60)
markdown10
git10
trello10
elixir10
org-mode10
graph10
environment-variables10
clojure10
postgrex10
knowledge-management10
knowledge-graph10
raw-sql10
ecto10
scalable10
clojurescript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gmtprime/yggdrasil_rabbitmq
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
RabbitMQ adapter for Yggdrasil
Contributions:44 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 11 months
yggdrasilrabbitmqamqpadapter
gmtprime/skogsra
Jun 2017 - May 2022
Library to manage OS environment variables and application configuration options with ease
Contributions:96 commits, 34 PRs, 130 pushes in 5 years
environment-variableselixiroptionsapplication-configurationvariables
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