Dário Marcelino
Ops Lead at Bru Textiles
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolDário Marcelino is a pragmatic technical leader and Ops Lead based in Lisbon with over 20 years of software engineering experience and 11 years of focused hands-on delivery. He combines deep backend skills in Java and Python, cloud-native AWS architecture, and container orchestration with people-first leadership—coaching a distributed Java team of nine while leading a cross-functional squad building a Digital Asset Pipeline. Comfortable bridging engineering and business, he runs sprint planning, technical design, code reviews, and stakeholder roadmaps while staying close to the code to ensure reliable, sustainable delivery. A former startup co-founder and early contributor to notable Node.js ORM and MongoDB adapter projects, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and open-source credibility to product and platform challenges. He also leverages applied AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot daily to boost team productivity and problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BEST Course on Technology Eco-efficiency, BEST Course on Technology Eco-efficiency at Politecnico di TorinoATHENS Course Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainability, ATHENS Course Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainability at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsSecondary School, Secondary School at Escola Secundária do BocageMaster Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
javascript10
back-end-development10
testing10
mongodb-database10
orm10
test-integration10
nodejs10
test-unit10
mongodb10
integration-testing10
query-optimization9
sailsjs9
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
balderdashy/waterline
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
An adapter-based ORM for Node.js with support for mysql, mongo, postgres, mssql (SQL Server), and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 72 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dário contributed to the core functionality of the Waterline ORM by implementing new migration strategies and addressing related issues. They worked on synchronizing database schemas, adding attributes, and modifying the sync process. The user also updated the example express application to incorporate new dependencies. Additionally, the user introduced tests to ensure compatibility between Waterline and its adapters.
sql-servermysqlmongonode-jssql
balderdashy/sails-mongo
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
MongoDB adapter for Sails.js / Waterline ORM.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dário primarily contributed to the functionality and testing of the sails-mongo adapter. They implemented changes to the adapter's query parsing, specifically regarding operators like `$gt` and `$gte`. They also modified the insert and find operations to align with Waterline's expectations, including normalizing MongoDB results. Furthermore, they added cross-adapter test capabilities.
sails-jsadapterwaterlinewaterline-ormsails
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