Fábio Souto
Group Platform Engineering Lead
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolFábio Souto is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Group Platform Engineering Lead at Miniclip in Lisbon, where he manages four cross-functional teams responsible for platform, observability, live ops, privacy/compliance and monetization systems across the gaming portfolio. He combines deep hands-on engineering (Erlang, PHP, Go) and large-scale web/backend architecture experience with people leadership—shaping career paths, hiring strategy and budget oversight. He has led migrations from legacy stacks to Go and container/serverless platforms, driven observability and CI/CD improvements, and scaled APIs that serve millions of requests per minute. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced AC/HVAC support in the notable wideq LG SmartThinQ client, showing attention to device-level integrations beyond game systems. Pragmatic, mentor-focused and technically curious, he pairs low-level systems knowledge from his MSc with a track record of operationalizing reliable, cost-conscious platforms.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Architectures, Networks and Computer Systems, Computer Science Engineering, MSc, Architectures, Networks and Computer Systems, Computer Science Engineering at University of Lisbon
English
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Github Skills (9)
reverse-engineering10
python10
api-design10
enums9
versioning8
software-update8
versioninfo8
javascript6
base326
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sampsyo/wideq
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
reverse-engineered client for the LG SmartThinQ API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Fábio primarily contributed to the `wideq` project by implementing features related to AC/HVAC device control. This involved adding support for swing configuration, including both horizontal and vertical swing modes. Furthermore, the user exposed these swing properties within the AC status, and bumped the version of the library, indicating they were involved in feature enhancements and release management for the project.
apipythonsmartthinqpython-clientreverse-engineered
miniclip/mobi
Oct 2017 - Sep 2023
A small PHP library to gather mobile OS versions
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years
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