Filipe Cabaço
Software Engineer at Supabase
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolFilipe Cabaço is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and full‑stack systems across startups and scaleups, currently contributing to Supabase’s realtime and analytics stack. He brings deep polyglot expertise—production work in Elixir, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript and ongoing side projects in Elixir and Clojure—paired with hands‑on DevOps and Postgres schema design. His contributions to the popular open‑source Supabase realtime and main repos include backend integrations, performance and test improvements, and analytics/logging pipeline work that touch BigQuery and log explorer features. At companies from Volkswagen Digital Solutions to Hopin and Talkdesk he’s delivered integrations, automation, and platform tooling that improve operational efficiency. Pragmatic about best practices, he focuses on scalable, stable systems while continuously learning and publishing thoughts on his technical blog. Colleagues rely on him for bridging product needs and robust implementation across distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, 12 of 20, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, 12 of 20 at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (37)
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realtime10
postgresql10
api-design10
elixir10
schema-design10
analytics10
api10
database-design10
db-schema10
phoenix-framework10
database-schema10
pubsub10
schema10
admin9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
supabase/realtime
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:265 reviews, 667 PRs, 1171 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Supabase Realtime project, focusing on features related to Logflare integration and enhancements to the inspector tool. They implemented configurable backend URLs using environment variables and added filtering capabilities to the inspector tool's user interface. Furthermore, they addressed code quality and performance by improving test coverage and making changes related to the codebase.
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supabase/supabase
Sep 2022 - Apr 2025
The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:67 reviews, 61 PRs, 164 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily focused on database schema management and modifications, specifically within a PostgreSQL environment. They set up and updated database schemas related to analytics and logs services. Furthermore, the user contributed to the configuration of the analytics backend, integrating BigQuery, and addressed issues related to log explorer functionality. They also made updates to documentation, primarily related to Realtime features, and addressed a number of typos and documentation-related fixes.
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