João Damas
Platform Engineer
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Damas is a Platform Engineer with nine years of experience building and hardening developer platforms and CI/CD systems to make engineering teams faster and more reliable. Currently at Talkdesk, he architects and automates core infrastructure—from Kubernetes and Terraform to Argo and GitHub Actions—while providing 24/7 on-call support and scaling platforms for growth. He previously focused on build-and-release engineering for autonomous driving at Critical TechWorks, crafting CI pipelines and tooling with Bazel, Zuul and Python. Alongside industry work, João teaches information processing, retrieval and databases at FEUP, mentoring students and developing tools that bridge education and practice. Colleagues know him for juggling platform reliability, developer experience and teaching, and for having a knack for pragmatic automation (and occasionally being ready for a nap).
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc+MSc Informatics and Computing Engineering, BSc+MSc Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (101)
keda10
contour10
serverless10
backend10
argoproj10
solr10
api10
kind10
lucene10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
information-retrieval10
java10
lists10
event-driven10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cyrilico/aoco-code-correction
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Automatic correction tool used to grade ARM Assembly student assignments in an academic environment
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 1 month
armv8-apythonarm-assemblygradecorrection
uniarea/ensino-ch
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 issues in 3 years 5 months
university-studentscssjavascriptscores
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