João Figueiredo
Senior Backend Engineer at Squarespace
Aveiro, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorJoão Figueiredo is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Aveiro, Portugal, with around a decade of experience building real-time, distributed, high-availability backend systems for UCaaS and SaaS platforms. He has designed and shipped scalable services using Java ecosystems (Netty, Spring Boot, Jetty/Tomcat), Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS, and brings deep expertise in telecom-grade systems (IN/OCS, 3GPP, TMForum) and BSS/OSS convergence. João has held principal engineering roles at Fuze and 8x8 and now contributes to Squarespace’s backend, demonstrating a track record of evolving large-scale communication platforms. His toolset spans from low-level embedded and Linux/HP-UX administration to modern cloud-native patterns, bridging legacy telecom protocols with contemporary microservices. Colleagues rely on him to untangle complex distributed architectures and to translate rigorous telecom requirements into robust production services. An early career in research and teaching underpins his analytical approach and emphasis on reliable, instrumented systems.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (14)
unix-timestamp7
api5
timestamp4
electricity4
json3
serialization3
java3
home-assistant3
unix3
fastjson2
gson2
firmware1
usb1
ascii1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fuze/developer-platform-code-samples
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Fuze API Developer Platform
Contributions:27 commits, 22 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 4 months
api
jpedrofigueiredo/ShoppingList
May 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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