Daniel Gomes
Senior Backend Engineer at Scilife
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolDaniel Gomes is a senior backend engineer and hands-on tech leader with 14+ years building high-scale distributed systems and founding engineering foundations from zero to production. He has grown teams across continents, architected systems that scaled 100x to handle millions of daily transactions, and delivered an 85% infrastructure cost reduction through pragmatic platform decisions. Comfortable in Go, PHP/Symfony and event-driven microservices on AWS/Kubernetes, he also contributed to the popular Concourse CI project improving its AWS SSM integration. An early adopter of AI coding assistants, he leverages AI to boost development velocity by over 50% and to automate code review and refactoring processes. Based in Lisbon, he is open to senior technical leadership roles where he can combine hands-on architecture, team building, and operational efficiency.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (22)
rs10
cicd10
go10
aws10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
documentation10
php9
continuous-integration8
containerd8
doc8
continuous-delivery8
pipeline7
html6
curl6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
symfony/symfony-docs
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily focused on updating and improving the Symfony documentation. They fixed broken URLs, corrected typos, and reorganized existing documentation, including moving and renaming files related to the Console component. They also added versioning information and made minor stylistic improvements to the documentation.
bundlephpsymfonysymfony-bundle
concourse/concourse
May 2020 - May 2020
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Concourse CI/CD system, focusing on enhancing its integration with AWS services. Their work involved modifying code related to AWS SSM (Simple Systems Manager) integration, adding support for variable sources, and refactoring existing code. They also addressed code quality by reordering imports and removing unnecessary components within the SSM manager implementation. These changes collectively improved the Concourse's functionality, maintainability, and its interaction with cloud resources.
golangcontainersdoergocdelm
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