David De Souza
Senior Software Engineer at Devoteam
Texas, Portugal
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Top SchoolDavid De Souza is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building front-end and full-stack products across fast-growing tech companies and consultancy engagements. Based in Texas and Portugal, he excels at turning product vision into scalable, maintainable front-end systems using TypeScript, Vue/Next, GraphQL and micro-frontend architectures while also contributing to backend integrations when needed. At Devoteam he consults for Kaizen Gaming to ship features that improve retention and mentors engineers to raise code quality; previously at Farfetch he helped scale BFF GraphQL services to serve exponential growth. An active open-source contributor, he has localized Microsoft’s TypeScript website for Portuguese speakers and improved a PHP client for Brazil’s postal API, showing a blend of internationalization and pragmatic backend fixes. He pairs a practical engineering mindset with strong product empathy, often owning requirements analysis, technical specs and testing strategies to deliver measurable outcomes. Fluent in cross-disciplinary collaboration, he brings a rare combination of front-end polish and backend integration experience rooted in real-world production systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matemática, Matemática at UFESTecnólogo em Redes de Computadores Tecnologia da informação, Tecnólogo em Redes de Computadores Tecnologia da informação at Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo - Campus Colatina
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Github Skills (12)
typescript10
php10
localization10
typescripts10
translation10
webservice10
typescript-types10
soap10
eto9
ets9
eta9
javascript7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stavarengo/php-sigep
Nov 2016 - May 2017
PHP client library for the Brazilian Post Office Web Service. Integração com Web Service do Correios. Consulta preços e prazos, imprime etiquetas e PLP, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 11 PRs, 13 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the `php-sigep` library by implementing and modifying methods related to the Brazilian Post Office Web Service integration. They added a method to consult the posting card status and made various corrections and improvements to existing functionalities. These changes include updates to the response handling for the status verification and adjustments to the object tracking functionalities, as well as fixes to the international tracking feature.
php-clientcorreiosetiquetas-de-postagemclient-libraryphp
microsoft/TypeScript-Website
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
The Website and web infrastructure for learning TypeScript
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the project by translating documentation and example code within the TypeScript website. The commits involve translating playground example files and updating the documentation related to language features like the nullish coalescing operator, demonstrating a focus on adapting the content for a Portuguese-speaking audience. These translations aim to broaden the accessibility and understanding of TypeScript for non-English speakers.
typescriptinfrastructurelearning-typescript
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