João Guimarães
Engenheiro De Software at YLD
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Guimarães is a seasoned software engineer based in Porto with 10 years of experience building cloud-native services and developer tooling, specializing in Node.js, Go and Infrastructure as Code. He has delivered production systems across media and e‑commerce at companies like DAZN, Farfetch, Fox and Auth0, pairing backend microservices with Terraform-driven AWS deployments. Comfortable both in frontend polish—evidenced by UI and test contributions to the popular atom/find-and-replace repo—and in backend systems, he brings practical full‑stack fluency. His background in electrical and computer engineering gives him a systems-oriented approach to reliability and performance, while frequent contracting work shows he adapts quickly to new domains and team contexts.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Energy, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering - Energy at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto / FEUPApplied Mobile Computing (Post-Graduation), Computer Software Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Applied Mobile Computing (Post-Graduation), Computer Software Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
ui-design10
coffeescript10
lessc9
atom-editor8
html6
ajax6
css6
npm6
nodejs6
twitter-bootstrap6
jquery6
npm-install6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
atom/find-and-replace
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Find and replace in a single buffer and in the project
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:João primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and workflow within the "find-and-replace" functionality. They implemented features to collapse and expand search results, improving the user's ability to manage and navigate matches. The user also refined the UI with improved layout, styling adjustments, and the introduction of a toggle button, enhancing usability. Furthermore, tests for collapse and expand functionality were added.
find-and-replacebuffer
jccguimaraes/project-viewer-plus
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Atom's package for projects organization
Contributions:131 commits, 38 PRs, 176 pushes in 1 year 9 months
atom
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