Andre Da Palma
Senior Software Engineer at Dialpad
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndre Da Palma is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, scalable back-end systems and microservices for fast-growing consumer platforms. He is a Python specialist now expanding into Go and Scala, with deep operational experience across AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, observability stacks and a strong TDD mindset. Andre has led architecture and DevOps efforts to handle millions of requests, implemented low-latency data pipelines, and built ML-driven fraud detection and scalability solutions. He's a contributor to the well-known django-oscar e-commerce project, improving core usability and maintainability. Comfortable as a hands-on lead, he pairs concurrent programming and distributed systems expertise with clear communication and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. Outside work he keeps active with football and running, reflecting the same discipline he brings to engineering.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at The Silesian University of TechnologyHigh School, Computer Science, High School, Computer Science at Escola Secundária Pinheiro e RosaBsc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, Bsc, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Information Technology at Universidade do Algarve
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Github Skills (24)
python10
ecommerce10
django10
thread-safety9
redis9
google-bigquery9
html-template9
python-templates9
forms9
parsing9
apptemplates9
cpp-templates9
tinymce9
code-templates9
html8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
django-oscar/django-oscar
Dec 2012 - Nov 2013
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andre contributed significantly to the Django Oscar e-commerce platform. Their work included customizing the missing image handling in product classes, refactoring code by moving functions into view classes, and injecting the request object into forms for better flexibility. Furthermore, the user replaced the existing WYSIWYG editor with TinyMCE, and addressed dashboard form errors. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving core functionalities, usability, and maintainability of the platform.
pythondjango-oscarecommercecommercedjango
andrefsp/pyflot
Feb 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:63 commits in 1 year 4 months
chartspython-interfacepythonchart
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