Joana Pestana
Software Engineer at Intermedia Cloud Communications
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoana Pestana is a software engineer with nine years of experience building resilient, event-driven microservices and cloud-native systems, currently at Intermedia Cloud Communications. With a foundation in mechanical engineering (MSc in Project & Production and Energy & Sustainability) and formal Java/database training from the University of Coimbra, she brings strong systems thinking and a pragmatic approach to design and production. Her recent roles emphasize Java-based backends (Quarkus, Spring Boot), AWS serverless and infra-as-code, observability, and chaos engineering to improve reliability at scale. She has hands-on experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka), databases (Postgres, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless), and test-first development including integration testing with TestContainers and LocalStack. Known as a frontend-focused contributor on GitHub, she pairs that UI sensibility with backend rigor to deliver end-to-end features and support. An early background in hospitality and sales adds customer-centric communication skills that aid her cross-functional collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Training course in Java programming and relational database models, Training course in Java programming and relational database models at Departamento de Engenharia Informática - Universidade de CoimbraMaster's degree - Energy and Sustainability Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree - Energy and Sustainability Mechanical Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
German, portuguese (native), Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
idris9
documentation7
api5
nodejs4
typescript3
classes3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joanasteodoro/joanasteodoro
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
joanasteodoro/iRave
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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