João Horta
Engineering Manager at Remote
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Horta is an engineering manager and full‑stack technologist from Lisbon with 10 years of experience leading product teams and shipping web and mobile applications. He progressed from hands‑on Ruby on Rails and JavaScript development to Head of Engineering roles, and now manages engineering teams at Remote. João has broad cross‑platform experience—React, React Native, TypeScript, Swift/SwiftUI, Python and Flutter—combined with a strong backend grounding in Ruby and data/ETL work from earlier analytics projects. He excels at scaling teams and codebases, having run frontend, backend and mobile efforts across startups and portfolio companies. With an academic background in computer science and early research experience building network path‑selection simulations, he brings both rigorous problem‑solving and practical delivery focus. Colleagues would note his blend of technical versatility and steady leadership through fast product iterations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPhysics, Physics at University of LisbonMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (179)
mobile-development10
animated10
react-devtools10
pipeline-framework10
chat10
deep-learning10
pitch10
stream-processing10
streaming10
backdrop10
calculator10
animation10
video-processing10
browser10
redux-devtools-extension10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Gaspard-Bruno/react-native-static-safe-area-insets
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
React Native package that exposes the Safe Area Insets as constants
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 25 commits in 3 years 9 months
reactreact-native-packagereact-nativesafe-areasafe
etudes-gaspardbruno/react-native-input-list
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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