Hugo Antunes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of experience building backend systems, observability, and automation for high-scale products across mobility, e‑commerce, and AI startups. He brings pragmatic, communication-focused engineering—mentoring teams, owning on-call reliability, and improving observability with tools like Datadog—to roles where stability and measurable ROI matter. Hugo has hands-on experience integrating infrastructure providers into open-source PaaS (notably contributing DigitalOcean support to tsuru) and has driven RAG and LLM optimizations in production. Born in Brazil and naturalized Portuguese, he combines an international perspective with formal training in data science (MBA) and a long history in backend engineering dating back to major platforms like Globo and Zalando. Colleagues describe him as considerate and pragmatic, with a knack for turning complex system constraints into practical, well-documented solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Data Science e Analytics, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Data Science e Analytics at MBA USP/Esalq
Technical Degree, Informatics, Technical Degree, Informatics at Instituto Superior de Educação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - ISERJ
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Centro Universitário da Cidade
Open source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily focused on implementing features related to the DigitalOcean IaaS integration within the tsuru platform. They added functionality for creating and deleting machines, handling user data, and included error handling for deletion failures. They also addressed code formatting issues and improved the platform's documentation. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the underlying IaaS and backend integration within the tsuru ecosystem.
Contributions:36 reviews, 116 PRs, 419 pushes in 8 months
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