André Albuquerque
Staff II Backend Engineer at Remote
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolAndré Albuquerque is a Staff II Backend Engineer based in Lisbon with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across fintech, identity verification, and large-scale remote-work platforms. A specialist in Elixir, he authors "Mastering Elixir," maintains an Elixir library for function interception, and applies his language expertise to product development at Remote. His background spans financial systems and oversight at Banco de Portugal to engineering leadership at Onfido and Hopin, combining rigorous domain knowledge with production-grade backend architecture. Beyond code, he designs custom keyboards (now experimenting with an Elixir/Nerves firmware) and explores generative art, reflecting a hands-on maker mindset that surfaces in both tooling and craft.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Monetary and Financial Economics, Master's degree Monetary and Financial Economics at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & ManagementMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (78)
programming-language10
windows10
intercept10
gpu10
linux10
rust10
opengl10
scalable10
vte10
elixir10
bsd10
macos10
terminal-emulator10
functional-programming10
compiler9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
amalbuquerque/thatsit-manager
Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 6 months
amalbuquerque/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:97 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 9 months
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