André Bento
Platform Engineer
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Bento is a Platform Engineer at Mollie and an invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra, combining 11 years of hands-on engineering with academic research in distributed systems and cloud optimization. He holds a PhD (Summa Cum Laude) focused on improving availability and resource utilization of cloud services and has deep practical experience with Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger) and languages including Python, Java, and Go. André teaches laboratory courses on distributed systems, microservices and systems integration, bringing production-grade patterns like event-driven architectures and Protocol Buffers into the classroom. His research-driven approach has produced tooling and techniques for root-cause analysis and performance control in microservices, bridging theory and deployable solutions. Outside work he stays active as an avid swimmer and cyclist, a discipline that mirrors his systematic, data-informed approach to platform reliability.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Information Technology, BSc, Information Technology at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de CoimbraPhD, Informatics Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, PhD, Informatics Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at University of Coimbra
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (20)
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compile9
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nextcloud5
trend4
python3
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golang3
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andrepbento/Learning-Go-2017
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 60 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 days
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andrepbento/CurriculumVitae
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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