David Oliveira
Senior Director Of Engineering at Wellhub
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Oliveira is a Senior Director of Engineering based in Lisbon with 16+ years building resilient internet systems and backend platforms, currently leading engineering at Wellhub. A low-level computing enthusiast and former strace sleuth, he blends deep systems programming in C and Perl with modern Node.js backend architecture to deliver accurate, failover-first solutions at scale. His expertise includes MongoDB administration and Memcached internals—he’s contributed to memcached and written technical exposés on its inner workings. A prolific open-source maintainer, he publishes numerous npm modules and maintains pet projects such as an asynchronous HTTP server and a Linux driver, demonstrating hands-on craftsmanship beyond managerial duties. Known for turning operational complexity into reliable services, he combines technical depth with leadership across roles at Skyscanner, Portugal Telecom/SAPO and startups.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Escola Profissional de Salvaterra de MagosEng. Informática, Eng. Informática at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Catalan
Github Skills (31)
memcached9
lru9
mysql7
key-value-store7
jquery6
crawler5
hsts5
scraper5
css5
javascript4
pluggable4
nodejs4
fiddler4
css-selectors4
http-header4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davidfoliveira/node-spritz
Jun 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 5 months
web-serverframeworkserver-frameworkpretty-simpleserver
davidfoliveira/node-proletariat
May 2013 - Jun 2020
Contributions:78 commits, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
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