Fernando Oliveira
Senior Back End Developer at PayProp United Kingdom
Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Oliveira is a Senior Back End Developer with 16 years of experience building scalable systems and tooling for high-traffic platforms, currently focused at PayProp in the UK. He combines deep systems and legacy-language expertise (C, C++, Perl) with modern cloud-native practices—Docker, AWS, Kafka, RabbitMQ—and has led migrations from monoliths to microservices handling massive traffic growth. An active open-source contributor, he has made substantive back-end contributions to the Rakudo Raku compiler and maintains diverse GitHub projects, including a notable Raku ORM that compiles Raku syntax to SQL. He mentors engineers through pairing and workshops and builds developer automation—CLIs, templating pipelines, and daemons—that streamline delivery and reduce toil. Comfortable across languages and decades of tech, he brings pragmatic engineering with an eye for language design and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (5)
nqp10
raku10
compiler-development10
moarvm9
testing8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rakudo/rakudo
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
🦋 Rakudo – Raku on MoarVM, JVM, and JS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 24 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the Rakudo Raku compiler, focusing on bug fixes and improvements to the core language implementation. Their commits addressed issues related to type checking, grammar parsing, and operator behavior within the Raku language. The user also made changes to core modules, refining the implementation of fundamental functionalities like Supply.throttle and Capture.
rakudorakujavascriptmoarvmjvm
FCO/aybee-client
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
Client for aybee Tests
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
abtesttestingabtestingabtest-framework
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