Joao Azevedo
Software Engineer at Kevel
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoao Azevedo is a seasoned software engineer based in Porto, Portugal with 16 years of experience building backend systems across startups and research labs. He has delivered production software at companies like Kevel, Velocidi and ShiftForward, combining practical engineering with academic rigour from a Master's in Computer Software Engineering. Joao contributes to well-regarded open-source tooling such as pureconfig, improving config loading, error messages and support for common types—work that reflects attention to developer ergonomics and robustness. His background spans research roles and hands-on product engineering, giving him strength in both prototyping and long-term maintainability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who surfaces subtle edge cases (e.g., namespace key filtering and default-argument handling) before they reach production.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
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Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
configurations10
configuration-file10
scala10
java6
emberjs6
scala-collections6
xml6
android6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pureconfig/pureconfig
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
A boilerplate-free library for loading configuration files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:236 reviews, 251 commits, 383 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joao contributed to the pureconfig/pureconfig project by fixing filtering of keys involving namespaces, enabling the loading of maps from the base namespace, and adding a `loadConfig` method for Typesafe Config objects. The user also addressed string conversion issues, improved error messages for implicit derivations and the use of Duration/FiniteDuration, and added support for default arguments and various types of configurations. These contributions enhanced the library's functionality and usability.
configurationlibrary-freeboilerplatescala-librarypureconfig
jcazevedo/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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