Hugo Cardoso is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Braga, Portugal, with six years of professional experience building reliable backend systems and shipping production software. Rising through roles at AgentifAI from Junior to Senior Backend Engineer, he focuses on distributed systems and full-stack web application architectures while completing an MSc in Software Engineering. He combines a methodical, outcome-driven approach with continual learning, often tackling end-to-end problems from design to deployment. As founder of Face da Inovação Portuguesa, he has hands-on experience fostering student-driven projects and building collaborative platforms. Hugo brings practical startup grit alongside academic grounding, making him comfortable both in fast-moving product teams and in engineering complex, distributed services. An intriguing detail: despite his backend focus, he intentionally cultivates full-stack fluency to better bridge product needs and system design.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Universidade do Minho
Ciências e Tecnologias, 19.4, Ciências e Tecnologias, 19.4 at Colégio Dom Diogo de Sousa
Projects developed during my Software Engineering course at University of Minho
Contributions:252 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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Hugo Cardoso - Senior Backend Engineer at AgentifAI