João Caxaria
Head Of AI Engineering at Coverflex
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Caxaria is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11+ years of experience building developer-focused and enterprise products across finance, health, and SaaS. As CTO and co-founder of Codacy he grew the company from pre-seed to Series B, scaled engineering to 60+ people, and led a migration from a monolith to microservices that supported multi-million ARR growth. Now Head of AI Engineering at Coverflex and a Non-Executive Board Member at Codacy, he blends hands-on expertise in Scala, microservices, and cloud platforms with product-first decision making. His background in consulting and multiple startups gives him a pragmatic view of trade-offs between business needs and technical choices. João emphasizes iterative progress, rapid feedback loops, and team-driven organization over dogmatic technology preferences. Based in Lisbon, he brings a rare combination of deep technical craft, institutional scaling experience, and founder-level commercial insight.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Computer Science, Computer Engineer Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
codacy10
coverage10
reporter10
test-coverage10
pmd9
command-line-interface9
refactoring9
docker-image9
codeclimate9
git-workflow9
lint9
code-coverage9
sbt-plugin8
chatbot8
idris8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
caxaria/RepositorySystemTests
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 501 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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