Edgar Sousa
System Architect at Tridonic
Porto Metropolitan Area Portugal
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Top SchoolEdgar Sousa is a system architect with over a decade of hands-on experience in core Java, embedded systems and high-performance computing, currently leading architecture at Tridonic from Porto, Portugal. He combines deep protocol and concurrency expertise—troubleshooting TCP/IP stacks and optimizing memory and performance on embedded platforms—with a strong background in feature-oriented development and cross-team coordination. His earlier research on parallelizing legacy scientific code and publications underline a methodical, performance-first approach to software design. Edgar is also an active contributor to open-source security tooling, having improved Paramiko’s Diffie-Hellman key exchange and cryptographic tests, reflecting comfort working directly in low-level crypto code. As a certified trainer with a decade of instructional experience, he brings both technical depth and the ability to mentor teams through complex refactors and post-mortem analyses.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree High Performance & Graphics Computing, Master's Degree High Performance & Graphics Computing at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (15)
diffie-hellman10
python10
cryptography10
ssh10
testing9
github-repos9
git-repository9
babeljs6
while-loop6
javascript6
forloop6
render6
if-statement6
react-dom6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paramiko/paramiko
May 2018 - Jun 2018
The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Edgar primarily contributed to enhancing the SSHv2 protocol library. Their work involved implementing support for Diffie-Hellman Group14-SHA256 key exchange, and fixing a bug in the Group1 implementation. Further contributions included test implementations and minor adjustments to the codebase. The user demonstrated proficiency in modifying core cryptographic aspects of the library, including key exchange mechanisms.
pythonsshv2sshpython3protocol-library
edgsousa/ktscheduler
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 8 pushes, 11 tags in 1 year 9 months
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