João Brandão
Senior Backend Engineer at Mercedes-Benz.io
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Brandão is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable, service-oriented systems across SaaS and enterprise domains. He has recently been building the new Mercedes‑Benz checkout and previously drove foundational backend architecture changes—like migrating services to asynchronous RabbitMQ communication—while working with Node.js, TypeScript, and Kotlin. Comfortable in cloud-native environments, João pairs hands-on coding with mentoring, interviewing, and co-leading graduate programs to raise team capability. He’s proactive about production resilience and cost management, and often champions process standardization and knowledge sharing across teams. Based in Braga, Portugal, he blends an electrical engineering master’s background with practical full-stack roots from early embedded and web projects, giving him a systems-level view that informs pragmatic architectural choices.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science and Technology, High School Science and Technology at Escola Secundária Carolina MichaëlisMaster’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer - Telecommunications, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer - Telecommunications at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (21)
complexity10
console9
architecture9
cli9
dojo9
php8
analytics7
husky7
easy-php6
timestamp5
javascript4
npm4
translation4
localization4
api4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joaorbrandao/dojo-rock-paper-scissors
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Coding Dojo - Rock, Paper, Scissors
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
dojokata
joaorbrandao/AGV
Nov 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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