Alvaro Menezes
Devops And Database Engineer
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolAlvaro Menezes is a DevOps and Database Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing, tuning and operating large-scale database and data engineering platforms across eCommerce and enterprise environments. He has progressed from Oracle DBA and pre-sales roles to principal engineering and data leadership, blending deep database administration (Oracle, SQL Server, Cassandra) with cloud-native DevOps practices. At Critical Software and BJSS he combined technical sales, architecture and delivery leadership, ensuring solutions matched both commercial and technical needs. Now at zkipster he focuses on site reliability and data infrastructure for customer-facing products, applying a pragmatic performance-first mindset honed on terabyte-scale systems. His curiosity about simplicity versus complexity—hinted in his playful GitHub bio—drives pragmatic trade-offs that reduce operational burden while enabling richer features. Based in Porto, Portugal, he pairs academic training in maths and computing with a track record of turning complex data problems into reliable production services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation Maths and Computing, Graduation Maths and Computing at Universidade Portucalense (UPT)
English, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (124)
visual-studio10
editor10
electron10
factor-authentication10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
github-services10
multi-factor-authentication9
sdk9
webpush9
amazon-s39
projeto9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
prodest/api-detran
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Api para consulta aos serviços do detran
Contributions:42 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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beebee-logistica/phonegap-plugin-push
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
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Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years
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