Gonçalo Montalvão Marques
Backend Engineering Community Of Practice Lead at Mercedes-Benz.io
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolGonçalo Montalvão Marques is a backend-focused software engineer with 8 years' experience, currently leading the Backend Engineering Community of Practice at Mercedes-Benz.io from Lisbon. He combines hands-on Java/Kotlin microservices development with people-centered enablement—onboarding, career framework design, and cross-site DevOps culture for 50–60+ engineers across Europe. His remit blends technical craftsmanship (Spring, Kubernetes, CI/CD, testing, observability) with program-level coordination—FOSS liaison, recruiting support, and internal evangelism—that drives consistent cloud-native practices. A former IT trainer and active internal ambassador for Great Place to Work initiatives, he brings rare experience translating technical standards into learning material and community rituals. Colleagues know him for turning operational lessons into repeatable onboarding content and for fostering experimentation rather than prescribing one-size-fits-all solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science and Technology, High School, Science and Technology at Escola Secundária Stuart CarvalhaisMaster of Science - MS, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
github10
spring-data10
proxy10
performance-testing10
argocd10
infrastructure10
dx10
microservices10
cloud-native10
reactor10
k8s10
operator10
scaffolding10
reactive10
kustomize10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
gonmmarques/GonMMarques
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
gonmmarques/discord-bot
Jun 2018 - Jun 2024
A simple Discord Bot for personal use.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
discord-botnodejs
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