Esdras De Noronha
Senior Software Developer at Zendesk
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolEsdras De Noronha is a Senior Software Developer with 11+ years building backend systems, now working remotely from Porto, Portugal. He specializes in Go for microservices and has strong experience with Java, PostgreSQL, Redis and cloud platforms (notably Azure), often leading backend teams and mentoring engineers. A pragmatic believer in automated tests and maintainable, testable code, he balances technical rigor with a collaborative, people-first approach. Esdras contributes to notable open-source tooling—having enhanced the popular Go testing library stretchr/testify—to improve test lifecycle hooks and reporting. Comfortable across the full stack with React/TypeScript and a history of diverse language exposure, he’s as likely to automate boring tasks as he is to share a dad joke or pet photo on Slack. Outside work he pursues hobbyist photography, cycling and music, and enjoys blending those interests into technical projects.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Federal University of Ceara
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (7)
assertion10
testify10
go10
testing10
mocking9
golang9
toolkits8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stretchr/testify
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Esdras primarily contributed to the `testify` library, a Go-based toolkit for testing. They implemented functionality for adding callbacks to run before and after each test, enabling more flexible test setup and teardown. Further enhancements included adding timestamps to test callbacks and modifying the test suite to accommodate the new functionality. They also refactored the code to improve consistency and added a function to return if all tests in a suite passed.
golangassertionstestingtoolkittestify
esdrasbeleza/hellowww
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
"Hello world" in different languages, outputting to HTTP, running on Docker.
Contributions:41 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
golanglanguagesdocker
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