Christopher Costa
Principal Software Engineer at Ambar
Portugal
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Top SchoolChristopher Costa is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently based in Portugal. He specializes in turning tangled dependencies and CI/CD chaos into streamlined, reliable systems—work demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile dotnet/arcade project where he improved build, packaging and cross-platform pipelines. At Microsoft he progressed from frontline Azure developer support to senior engineering roles driving runtime reliability, scalability and performance for mission-critical cloud services. Known for mapping workstreams and fostering collaboration, he blends hands-on coding, DevOps, and architecture to keep complex projects moving. His background in electrical and electronics engineering and early hardware and frontend roles gives him a pragmatic systems perspective that helps bridge low-level concerns with large-scale cloud operations.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ensino SecundárioElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
English, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
azure-devops-server10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
azure-devops10
msbuild10
cicd10
build-automation9
powershell8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/arcade
Feb 2018 - Jul 2022
Tools that provide common build infrastructure for multiple .NET Foundation projects.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:220 reviews, 369 commits, 589 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the build and deployment infrastructure of the project. This included adding and modifying NuGet package feeds and incorporating dependency harvesting for repackaging. The user also made changes to CI configuration, enabling and configuring builds on Linux and VSTS platforms, and introducing pipeline logging. Furthermore, the user worked on centralizing version tools and modifying build scripts.
dotnetinfrastructurefoundationcsharpdotnet-core
dotnet/arcade-extensions
Nov 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 44 pushes, 16 branches in 5 years 11 months
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