Francisco Marques
Chief Technology Officer at Significa
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolFrancisco Marques is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Porto with 11 years of experience designing and delivering resilient, simple software for product teams. He combines hands-on backend development—particularly with Elixir, Docker, PostgreSQL and cloud platforms—with responsibilities in architecture, project planning and hiring. At Significa he progressed from backend developer to lead developer and now CTO, shepherding delivery and team growth across cloud-native stacks. He has strong experience in advertising and payments platforms from his time at Leadzai, including building backend GraphQL services and production infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he improved the widely used Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir by making its integer handling spec-compliant and adding configurability and tests. Francisco is a team player who prioritizes streamlined development flows and pragmatic solutions that balance robustness with simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Sciences and Technology, High School Sciences and Technology at Escola secundária Clara de ResendeBachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Universidade Portucalense (UPT)
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
elixir10
absinthe10
testing10
api8
apim8
documentation8
api-design8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
absinthe-graphql/absinthe
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Francisco primarily focused on enhancing the Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir. Their contributions centered on improving the `:integer` scalar type, ensuring compliance with the GraphQL specification by adding tests, and introducing a configuration option to switch between the legacy and the spec-compliant integer implementation. They also improved the documentation and renamed configuration parameters. The user implemented a pipeline modifier to override the default Int type.
servicesapirelayelixirgraphiql
tofran/zxcvbn-min
Mar 2021 - Jul 2023
zxcvbn-min is zxcvbn fork without dictionaries. This is mostly an experiment.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 4 months
zxcvbnpythondictionariespassword-strength
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