André Santos
Software Engineer at Blip.pt
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolAndré Santos is a Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Blip in Braga, Portugal. He works across Go, JavaScript, Python and Kotlin, and combines server-side engineering with front-end experience from roles at Talkdesk and VILT. An active open-source contributor and exercism track maintainer, he improves Go exercises and test automation to help others learn idiomatic Go. Passionate about teaching, he mentors developers and shapes learning resources while shipping production software. Collected strengths include pragmatic refactoring, reliable test design, and a habit of removing unnecessary dependencies to keep projects maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidade do Minho
Github Skills (6)
go10
test-automation10
testing10
computer-engineering9
go-modules9
tracks8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/go
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Exercism exercises in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:594 reviews, 58 commits, 451 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:André primarily contributed to the `exercism/go` repository by implementing and improving exercise solutions. Their work includes adding checks for name length in tests, removing unnecessary dependencies in the `go.mod` file, improving exercises to teach about constants, and moving functions to tests. They have also refactored tests to make them more robust and maintainable. These changes highlight their involvement in writing and modifying code, ensuring the quality and correctness of the exercise solutions.
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andrerfcsantos/valorant-agent-picker
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Random Agent Picker for Valorant
Contributions:3 reviews, 42 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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