Gonçalo Sousa
Staff Software Engineer at Personio
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolGonçalo Sousa is a Staff Software Engineer based in Munich with 13 years of experience building scalable retail and HR-facing systems, currently leading platform work at Personio. He brings deep backend expertise in Java, Spring, Docker and microservices while also shipping modern SPAs with Angular and Vue.js, bridging backend architecture with frontend needs. A graduate of Instituto Superior Técnico, he progressed through multiple senior roles at Personio after prior engineering work at E. Breuninger, demonstrating both hands-on coding and team leadership. Known for pragmatic, production-first design, he often focuses on observability and reliable service evolution in complex retail and HR domains. An understated strength is his academic roots and teaching experience, which inform a collaborative mentoring style that elevates engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Escola Secundária D. Filipa LencastreMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (41)
nodejs10
system-information10
javascript9
adobe-experience-manager9
react9
learning-management-system8
java7
domain-model6
sorting6
gson6
content-management6
rest6
github6
6
json6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
diutsu/fenixedu-learning
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 69 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 6 months
management-systemlearning-management-systemreactfenixedujavascript
diutsu/bennu
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:37 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
web-applicationsdevelopingjava-webfenixframework
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