Filipe Esch
Senior Staff Software Engineer at QuintoAndar
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolFilipe Esch is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with two decades of experience evolving from .NET to modern Java 21-based enterprise platforms, currently building high-performance systems at QuintoAndar. He excels in system design, Domain-Driven Design, and event-driven architectures, having led teams that process billions of messages daily and contributed to the open-source KafkaFlow project. Known for pragmatic focus on cost efficiency, scalability and reliability, he architects distributed platforms using Quarkus, Kafka and PostgreSQL while maintaining close alignment with business and executive stakeholders. In recent years he has driven AI-assisted development adoption—leveraging GitHub Copilot and custom coding agents—to boost productivity, consistency and code quality across teams. Based in Porto, Portugal, Filipe blends deep hands-on engineering with mentoring and tooling improvements that quietly raise the bar for platform reliability and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
English, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (14)
data-serialization10
apache-kafka10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
serialization10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
dotnet-new9
dotnet9
nuget8
asp-net6
fancybox6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Farfetch/kafkaflow
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Apache Kafka .NET Framework to create applications simple to use and extend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:71 releases, 277 reviews, 263 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Filipe primarily focused on enhancing the KafkaFlow project's serializer functionality. Their contributions involved adding descriptions to various package files and modifying several files to change summary descriptions, indicating an effort to improve code documentation and maintainability. Furthermore, the user added several new features, including adding named producers and creating console log handlers and default message type resolvers.
farfetchsimple-to-usec-sharpdotnetcoreapache-kafka
filipeesch/dynamic-sql
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
A .NET library designed to create complex, parameterized SQL queries dynamically using a versatile template syntax. Effortlessly handle conditional logic, integrate variable lists, and generate optimized SQL statements with ease. Ideal for applications requiring flexible SQL construction with maximum code safety and readability.
Contributions:11 releases, 12 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
dotnetqueryquery-buildersql
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