Summary
João Bezerra is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with over a decade of professional experience building web platforms, APIs, and automation tools across Linux-heavy stacks. He combines backend expertise in Python, CI/CD and big-data environments (Spark/YARN) with frontend work in React/Next.js to deliver internal web tools, monitoring dashboards, and developer automation. João has a strong operations mindset—authoring Grafana dashboards and scripts to auto-reconfigure and optimize cluster usage—and a track record of shipping production integrations for streaming and tournament systems. His academic work in NLP and computational creativity (Masters) informed a published project that trained custom language models for writing assistance, highlighting a rare blend of ML research and pragmatic systems engineering. Colleagues know him for making developer workflows smoother through tooling, observability, and practical automation.
11 years of coding experience