João Almeida
Senior Software Engineer at MoonPay
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Almeida is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with over a decade of experience building and operating backend systems for product-focused companies. He has led end-to-end initiatives from architecture to production—most recently designing AI-driven meeting-notes pipelines and natural-language interfaces that integrate calendar, email and todos. His strengths include performance optimization, data-access refactoring and pragmatic caching strategies that have materially reduced CPU and latency at scale. João is fluent in Node.js/TypeScript and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, GCP), with deep experience across Redis, PostgreSQL, Kafka and event-driven systems. He pairs hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership, mentoring engineers while shipping complex multi-step workflows and automation platforms. A former mainframe and COBOL developer turned cloud-native builder, he brings a rare operational perspective across legacy and modern stacks.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (32)
charts9
docker8
helm8
kubernetes8
plugin7
k8s7
jwt-authentication6
logging5
rack5
pipe5
authentication5
expressjs5
middleware5
joi4
nodejs4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jgalmeida/rack-jwt-auth
Oct 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
authenticationrackrubyjwt-authentication-middlewareauthentication-middleware
yldio/react-native-offline-first
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
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