Hugo Ferreira
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Ferreira is a Senior Software Engineer and technical architect with 10 years of experience designing performant, reliable cloud-native systems, currently at Datadog in Lisbon. He has led multi-team architectural initiatives at Miro and Skyscanner, reshaping billing, payments, and event-driven platforms to accelerate experimentation and reduce operational overhead. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding and strategic design, he’s delivered migrations from monoliths to microservices and serverless architectures, and built PCI-compliant payment platforms integrating Adyen, PayPal and Stripe. Hugo pairs deep AWS expertise with pragmatic product alignment, ensuring technical decisions map to business outcomes while shortening delivery cycles and onboarding times. He’s known for improving engineering culture through design docs, RFCs, and automation that cut backend setup from days to minutes. Less obvious: he consistently bridges high-level architecture with quick incident-driven fixes, resolving critical production issues under tight deadlines.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering and Computer, Computer Engineering and Computer at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (Engineering Institute)Informatics Technician Informatics and networks, Informatics Technician Informatics and networks at Escola Secundária de Leal da Câmara
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (12)
addon9
nokia5
home-assistant5
ninja4
restful4
java4
json3
erp3
full-stack3
microservices2
ninjaframework1
web-framework1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CrackPT/ninja-framework-with-gradle
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
CrackPT/crackpt.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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