João Bandeira
Product Engineering Lead at KPK
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoão Bandeira is a Product Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver resilient backend systems and thoughtful product experiences from Porto, Portugal. He blends hands-on engineering—APIs, database design, microservices and even front-end CSS—with strategic product work, having moved between tech lead, head of architecture and product roles at fintech and DeFi-focused companies. João excels at translating customer needs into maintainable architectures and has a track record of mentoring teams while remaining an active contributor to code. Notably, he’s a rare backend-first engineer who enjoys frontend polish, bringing cross-cutting empathy to UX, performance and long-term technical health.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Informatics and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Informatics and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (38)
json10
data-validation10
json-schema10
forms10
react-component10
react9
redis7
python7
queue7
task-manager6
pure-python6
avro6
amqp6
task-scheduler4
low-level4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
norim13/feup-laig
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
norim13/norim13.github.io
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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