Diego Guimarães
Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Guimarães is a Berlin-based software engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems, primarily in Python and the Django ecosystem. He has production experience designing REST APIs, asynchronous task architectures with Celery, and migrating deployment pipelines to Kubernetes and Zalando’s CDP while leveraging AWS services like S3, RDS, ElastiCache and CloudFormation. Diego contributed directly to the core Django project—fixing database, admin and test-suite issues—which underscores his focus on maintainability and long-term stability. At Zalando he delivered resilient integrations for SFTP-to-S3 synchronization and third-party warehouse mapping, solving operational reliability problems rather than just adding features. An easygoing team player and mentor, he actively spreads best practices in Python and Git across teams and has a track record of creating reusable infrastructure components that standardize workflows.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, B.S in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
425reputation
40kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (18)
python10
django10
testing10
php-framework10
web-framework10
multiview9
modeling9
pageviews9
orm8
google-apps8
vacuum6
callback6
chord6
sql6
psycopg6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
django/django
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 comment in 18 days
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the Django framework's core codebase, focusing on bug fixes, test improvements, and code cleanup. Their work involved addressing specific issues related to database interactions, admin interface functionalities, and test execution dependencies. The contributions encompassed modifications to models, views, and testing infrastructure to enhance the framework's stability and maintainability. They also addressed deprecation warnings and side effects in the testing suite, improving the test suite's reliability.
pythondjango-frameworkappsdjangoframework
diegoguimaraes/vimfiles
Jun 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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