GilĀ Sousa
Engineering Manager at Delivery Hero
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGil Sousa is an engineering manager based in Berlin with a decade of experience building and leading backend teams across e-commerce and platform services. Currently at Delivery Hero, he combines hands-on PHP and Node.js development with people leadership to deliver microservices and new features for high-throughput products. Previously he led multiple platform projects at FARFETCH and designed REST, GraphQL, and gRPC services at Futurice, bringing strong API and distributed-systems expertise. He has a pragmatic background in service design, event-driven architecture, and technical mentoring that helps teams scale both code and processes. Comfortable moving between coding and strategic roadmap decisions, he also has deep experience turning client ideas into production-ready systems from his freelance and agency work. Known for improving performance, security and observability, he blends practical engineering craft with thoughtful team development.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), InformĆ”tica, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), InformĆ”tica at Universidade do MinhoAssociate's degree, ProgramaĆ§Ć£o de AplicaƧƵes Web, Associate's degree, ProgramaĆ§Ć£o de AplicaƧƵes Web at Universidade Fernando Pessoa
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (64)
php8
lifx8
bundle8
harmony7
symfony7
symfony-bundle7
flask6
styles6
wordpress6
css6
python6
selenium-webdriver6
selenium6
django-swagger5
ifttt5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sousatg/PHPIfThenPay
May 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
php-classpayment-gatewaysphppayment-gatewaypayment-system
sousatg/piglatin
Apr 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 1 month
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