Edgar Passos
Software Engineer II at Rippling
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolEdgar Passos is a Senior Software Engineer based in Braga, Portugal, with a decade of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and distributed services. He currently drives global payroll engineering at Rippling and previously delivered high-impact features and cost-saving infrastructure at Amazon’s PerfectMile team, including a data replication system that cut metadata API costs by 90%. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he has deep experience with React, GraphQL, serverless Node.js Lambdas, DynamoDB and OpenSearch, and has led operational excellence and Peak-readiness initiatives. His background includes research-oriented teaching assistant roles in AI and low-level programming at the University of Porto, an MSc in Informatics and a semester at TUM, reflecting both practical production chops and academic depth. Notably, he’s repeatedly returned to and scaled internal platforms that serve thousands of business reviews across global logistics—demonstrating a knack for durable, widely used engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc + MSc, Engenharia Informática e Computação, BSc + MSc, Engenharia Informática e Computação at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoColégio Luso-FrancêsMestrado em Engenharia, Informática, Mestrado em Engenharia, Informática at Technische Universität München
German, French, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
react-library8
timetable8
react7
babeljs6
jekyll6
mochajs6
component-library6
commonjs6
semantic6
semantic-ui6
feed6
css6
typescript6
semantic-ui-react6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bernardobelchior/feup-laig
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:94 pushes, 14 branches, 1 comment in 4 months
edgarlpassos/feup-sdis
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:99 commits, 70 pushes, 28 branches in 1 month
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