Diogo Torres
Senior Reliability Engineer at Uphold
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolDiogo Torres is a Senior Reliability Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and improving DevOps practices, currently focused on platform reliability at Uphold. He has led high-impact projects like migrating primary databases to PostgreSQL 16, upgrading EKS clusters, and moving rate-limiting to Cloudflare WAF to remove Redis bottlenecks—efforts that improved availability, performance, and cost efficiency. Comfortable across the stack, Diogo has delivered API designs, Golang file services with S3/DynamoDB, and GraphQL performance improvements while also championing developer experience through CI/CD automation and tooling. He combines formal training (Integrated MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering from University of Porto) with a pragmatic, documentation-first approach that improved onboarding and reduced technical debt. A natural mentor and roadmap contributor, he balances technical leadership with hands-on execution and a curious appetite for new tools. Outside work he prioritizes fitness and disciplined routines, which he credits for sustained focus during large, complex migrations.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc+MSc Informatics and Computing Engineering Computer Science, BSc+MSc Informatics and Computing Engineering Computer Science at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoHigh School Science and Technology, High School Science and Technology at Escola Secundária Henrique Medina
Portuguese, English, French
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
uphold/uphold-scripts
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Set of scripts and dev dependencies to help with common tasks on Uphold projects
Contributions:2 releases, 13 reviews, 21 PRs in 4 years 2 months
diogotorres97/express-template
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
An opinionated template for an Express based project, featuring a standardized structure, containerization, authentication, ORM, development utilities, etc.
Contributions:1 review, 24 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 4 months
expressjsexpressauthenticationdockercontainerization
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