Francisco Cardoso
VP Of Engineering at Uphold Inc.
Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancisco Cardoso is a VP of Engineering with 12 years of experience designing and operating high-performance APIs and third-party integrations for global, highly regulated financial platforms. At Uphold he progressed from Senior Platform Engineer to Head of Backend and now leads engineering efforts that power multi-currency, cross-border transactions at scale. He specializes in distributed systems, Node.js backends, Postgres, Kubernetes and messaging systems, balancing performance and scalability with pragmatic delivery. Based in Braga, Portugal, he blends hands-on coding with leadership, mentoring teams through platform evolution and operational challenges. Outside of work he maintains an active developer presence on GitHub and npm, signaling a continual focus on craft and reusable tooling.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Instituto Superior Politécnico Gaya
Github Skills (113)
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
db210
javascript10
sql10
content-range10
d110
database10
json10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
typescript10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uphold/koa-pagination
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
A middleware to handle Range Pagination Headers using Range & Content-Range entity-headers.
Contributions:18 releases, 34 PRs, 72 pushes in 4 years
content-rangepaginationpagination-headersentityheaders
uphold/ein-validator
Oct 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 5 years 2 months
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