David Vaz
Senior Backend Developer (Python Django) at AdEvolutio
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolDavid Vaz is a Senior Backend Developer specializing in Python and Django with 13 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning academia, startups, and product engineering. He holds a PhD in Spatial Data Mining and moved from research and university lecturing into hands-on software roles, preferring deep developer work over long-term management. A serial founder and co-founder (AdEvolutio, Geolink) with proven commercial impact, he has led architecture, infrastructure and data-driven applications while growing teams and delivering public-sector and enterprise systems. David is a community builder — founding PyCon Portugal and co-organizing multiple editions of DjangoCon Europe, including the first virtual and record-attendance hybrid events — which reflects his commitment to open source and developer ecosystems. Based in Porto, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic product delivery, often resurfacing academic techniques into production-grade backends and data pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Licentiate degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at DCC-FCUPLicentiate degree (atendance), Mathematics, Licentiate degree (atendance), Mathematics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto | FCUPDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Spatial Data Mining, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Spatial Data Mining at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (57)
javascript10
python10
leaflet10
django-framework10
django10
shop-application10
concerts10
api10
orm10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
html10
rest-api10
web-framework9
filetype9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adevolutio/allauth_saml2
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 11 months
djangocon/2024.djangocon.eu
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 58 PRs, 89 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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