João Bolila
Senior Software Engineer at ST Engineering iDirect
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Bolila is a Senior/Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and a deep specialty in microservices observability and distributed systems, currently architecting cloud-native solutions for large-scale satellite networks from Portugal. At ST Engineering iDirect he led the modernization of monoliths into resilient microservices, designed fault-tolerant systems managing thousands of satellite nodes, and drove operational excellence as Release Manager since 2018. He is fluent in Go, Rust, Python and Node.js and has hands-on experience integrating Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry to make production systems more observable and debuggable. João’s work spans both low-latency network resource management and team enablement—mentoring engineers to understand complex telemetry and delivery practices. An active open-source contributor, he improved the widely used TiddlyWiki editor by adding syntax-highlighted code blocks and editor keymap support, showing a practical focus on developer UX as well as systems engineering. Remote since 2016, he balances deep technical leadership with pragmatic delivery on global, mission-critical infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (incomplete), Computer Science (incomplete) at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (11)
html10
javascript10
syntax-highlighting10
codemirror10
wikipedia10
tiddlywiki10
css7
docpad6
nodejs6
singleton6
coffeescript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:João contributed to the TiddlyWiki5 project by implementing a code block widget and associated parsing rules, integrating the highlight.js library to provide syntax highlighting within code blocks. They also updated highlight.js to version 8.0 and added support for Vim and Emacs keymaps via CodeMirror, enhancing the editing experience. These changes involved modifying core widget and parser modules and integrating external libraries, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the editor's functionality and user experience.
notestiddlywikiwindowsbrowserself-contained
jbolila/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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