André Hangalo
Lead Engineer (Backend & DevOps) at Horizon Dev LLC
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Hangalo is a Lead Engineer specializing in backend and DevOps with a decade of experience building resilient systems that prevent "scaling" problems before they surface. He focuses on the unglamorous but critical layers—data models, APIs, background jobs, deployments, and performance tuning—and has driven measurable business impact, including a rebuild that cut a manual weekly report from half a day to minutes, enabling 67% revenue growth. Comfortable across Python, Django, DRF, TDD, Docker and microservices, he blends hands-on engineering with infrastructure ownership to make deploys predictable and queries fast. Based in Portugal, he also teaches and mentors, bringing prior experience in mobile and hardware instruction that helps him translate complex systems into practical, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization, Software Development, Specialization, Software Development at Universidade Mandume Ya NdemofayoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology at Universidade do MinhoLicentiate degree, Computer Science, Licentiate degree, Computer Science at Instituto Superior Politecnico da Huíla
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rickdeu/learn_angola_language
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 13 pushes in 4 months
rickdeu/covidlive
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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