Gabriel Poça
Chief Technology Officer at Subvisual
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolGabriel Poça is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Subvisual in Braga, Portugal. He combines deep backend engineering chops—demonstrated through contributions to self-hosted projects like the Stringer RSS reader—with strategic leadership shaping product and engineering direction. His background spans hands-on system configuration, asset pipeline improvements, and performance-focused upgrades, reflecting a pragmatic approach to maintainability and developer workflow. A long-tenured member of Subvisual, he progressed from software developer to CTO, and previously directed open source support at CeSIUM, showing commitment to community-facing engineering. Gabriel holds an MSc in Informatics Engineering from Universidade do Minho and blends academic rigor with practical delivery in Web3 and fintech domains. Outside product work, he favors robust, self-hosted solutions and incremental improvements that reduce operational friction while scaling teams and systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Degree Informatics Engineering, MSc Degree Informatics Engineering at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (19)
rss10
ruby10
sinatra10
sprockets10
activerecord9
ruby-on-rails8
feedparser8
unicorn8
rails8
rss-reader8
html6
lodash6
segmentation-fault6
underscorejs6
css6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
stringer-rss/stringer
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 25 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel contributed to the back-end logic of the RSS reader, focusing on data handling and system configuration. They implemented features to handle RSS entries lacking URLs and incorporated a method to use enclosure URLs. Furthermore, the user replaced the asset management system with Sprockets for improved performance and maintainability, including integrating it into the application. They also upgraded the Unicorn configuration for improved development workflow.
rssantirss-readerhostedfeedjira
gabrielpoca/dotfiles
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
Contributions:432 commits, 125 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 4 months
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