João Albuquerque
Staff Software Engineer at Apprentice.io
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Albuquerque is a Staff Software Engineer based in Porto with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and leading engineering teams across FinTech and SaaS domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Kubernetes and microservices with strong DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Docker, AWS/Azure). João has repeatedly driven architectural change—introducing TypeScript, automated testing, API documentation and event-driven Pub/Sub designs—while also hiring and mentoring teams as a tech lead and contractor. As a co-founder he’s balanced product thinking and delivery, moving projects from prototype to production and helping companies set up remote offices and best practices. He’s passionate about automating processes and digitizing workflows in financial services, and often operates at the intersection of product, architecture and developer productivity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Informatics Engineering, 16 out of 20, Master, Informatics Engineering, 16 out of 20 at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do PortoBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 12 out of 20, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 12 out of 20 at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (69)
sonata10
vimeo10
refined10
dailymotion10
bundle10
youtube10
sonatamediabundle10
media10
pdf10
media-library10
iframe10
php10
vagrant9
packer9
terraform9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IgniteYourProject/SonataMediaBundle
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
bundlephpsymfony-bundlemedia-managementsymfony2
IgniteYourProject/StateMachineBundle
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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