António Cruz
Backend Engineer at Ometria
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolAntónio Cruz is a backend engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems, currently optimising infrastructure and database/pipeline performance at Ometria. He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from FEUP and has led backend development for real-time, asynchronous multiplayer gaming and casino systems, tackling concurrency, security, and high-load challenges. His work spans Django Channels, FastAPI microservices, Redis pub/sub, Kafka, and payment-safe transaction logic, and he’s collaborated with mathematicians to model game risk and player variance. A lover of statistics, probabilities, strategy games and puzzles, he brings a quantitative mindset to engineering trade-offs and cost optimisations. Based in Porto, he balances hands-on implementation with cross-functional leadership and a continual appetite for learning.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics and Computing Engineering, 16/20, Master's degree, Informatics and Computing Engineering, 16/20 at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoOne semester abroad within Erasmus+ programme, Informatics and Computing Engineering, One semester abroad within Erasmus+ programme, Informatics and Computing Engineering at Uniwersytet ŁódzkiScience and Tecnology, 18,7 out of 20, Science and Tecnology, 18,7 out of 20 at Colégio Luso-Francês
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
css3
react3
mongodb3
nextjs2
nodejs2
javascript2
frontend2
jekyll2
html1
keystonejs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AntoniooCruz/LCOM-FEUP-Asteroids
Feb 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 pushes in 3 years 4 months
AntoniooCruz/antonioocruz.github.io
Jul 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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