João Gonçalves
Engineering at Cauldron
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJoão Gonçalves is an experienced software engineer and team lead with 13 years building sustainable, research-driven software across academia, non-profits, and industry. Based in Zurich, he has led engineering at ecoinvent and now contributes to open sustainability tooling at Cauldron and Départ de Sentier, blending production-grade development with domain-focused impact. His background spans web and backend systems—from CMS and digital-repository work at CERN to research software at Empa and human-factors tooling at DLR—bringing strong Python and web engineering chops. He combines hands-on coding with leadership, having moved from senior engineer to software engineering team lead while staying engaged in open-source-oriented projects. Trained with an MSc from the University of Porto and PhD work at the University of Zurich, João bridges rigorous research methods and practical software delivery. A less obvious strength is his ability to translate academic evaluation needs into maintainable engineering solutions that support long-term sustainability assessment.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Informatics and Computing Engineering, Master’s Degree Informatics and Computing Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at University of Zurich
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German
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Github Skills (166)
expressjs10
rhel10
dockerfile10
commons10
reactive10
centos10
json10
jvm10
continuous-integration10
redhat10
java10
openshift10
portal10
fedora10
gulp-plugin10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jsvgoncalves/jni-webrest
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
cppcallsandroidandroid-appweb-apis
empa-tsl/dpmfa-db
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Package importing a database into the python package dpmfa
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
python-packagepythondatabaseimporting
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