Hugo Manguinhas
Head Of Engineering at Europeana
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Manguinhas is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and operating APIs and cultural-heritage platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Europeana in the Netherlands. He combines hands-on software development skills (Java, C++, C#) with product ownership, having led the Europeana API portfolio that won industry recognition and coordinated multi-partner European projects. Hugo manages cross-functional teams and vendor integrations while owning roadmaps, release planning and technical infrastructure maintenance. His background spans research and applied work in linked open data, data modelling and national library systems, which gives him a rare blend of academic rigor and production-grade delivery. Known for turning complex data ecosystems into reliable services, he often acts as the bridge between R&D, product and engineering. Based in Haarlem, he brings deep domain expertise in cultural heritage technology and a track record of restoring and scaling critical national data workflows.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Information Systems, Data Profiling and Cleansing, Master's degree in Information Systems, Data Profiling and Cleansing at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Dutch
Github Skills (64)
oai-pmh10
jsinterop10
applet10
oai9
core-library9
java9
spring9
data-model9
solr9
rap9
search-api9
api9
metis9
europeana9
java-api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hugomanguinhas/europeana
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:77 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
hugomanguinhas/europeana_shapes
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:177 commits, 175 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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