André De Oliveira
Staff Engineer, Cloud Division at Liferay
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAndré De Oliveira is a Staff Engineer in Liferay's Cloud Division with 14 years of software engineering experience and deep expertise in search infrastructure, distributed microservices, and Java-based enterprise systems. He led Search Engineering at Liferay, building interchangeable Elasticsearch and Solr connectors, authoring extensive automated test suites, and guiding cross-product teams to optimize relevance for diverse content types. Earlier he architected a Smalltalk-to-Java transpiler that migrated a 20K-class codebase, demonstrating a knack for large-scale automated migrations and pragmatic engineering leadership. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he blends hands-on backend development with people-oriented leadership and an aptitude for turning legacy complexity into maintainable, tested systems. Off the clock he describes himself as a builder and writer at heart—equally invested in crafting software and raising his kids—which hints at a thoughtful, long-term approach to engineering and mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Technician Computing, Technician Computing at Fundação José CarvalhoTechnologist Computing, Technologist Computing at University of São Paulo
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
api10
solr10
apidoc10
java10
searching10
lucene9
git6
mongoose6
elasticsearch6
npm6
nodejs6
javascript6
mongodb6
github6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-plugins
Oct 2014 - Apr 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:André primarily focused on improving the search functionality within the Liferay plugins repository. Their contributions involved modifying the Solr integration, specifically addressing issues with query processing and stopword handling. They also implemented new base API `IndexSearcher.getQueryString()` and refactored existing search-related code, matching the structure of Elasticsearch for consistency. These changes directly impacted how search queries are constructed and executed within the Liferay platform.
arboliveira/rubyquest
Nov 2011 - Jun 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
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