Summary
André Machado is an Engineering Manager based in Luxembourg with over 15 years of hands-on software engineering experience and 11 years in professional roles building scalable web applications. He combines strong leadership in agile delivery with deep technical breadth across PHP, Node.js, Python, Go, microservices, asynchronous processing, and Twelve-Factor app design. Known for shaping robust architectures and CI/CD practices, he has driven cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade services, search integrations, and performant caching strategies. André pairs practical backend expertise (Laravel, Zend, Phalcon) with frontend familiarity (React, ES6) and operational knowledge of queues, Redis, Solr and load balancing. He also brings recruiting and mentoring experience, having interviewed and developed engineers while fostering team practices like TDD/BDD and Git workflows. A pragmatic technologist, he consistently focuses on measurable product outcomes and system resilience rather than technology for its own sake.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Systems at FALS
Portuguese, English