Joao Jacome
Tech Lead at Smartbox Group
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJoao Jacome is a Tech Lead based in Dublin with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and leading teams. He combines deep PHP expertise (Laravel, Symfony, Zend, CakePHP) with modern JavaScript stacks (AngularJS, Node/Express) and practical experience in MySQL and RethinkDB. At Smartbox Group he progressed from Symfony developer to Tech Lead, and previously led engineering and platform work as CTO and founder of a transport-focused startup, giving him product-minded infrastructure and deployment experience. He contributes to open-source PHP tooling—improving the popular schmittjoh/serializer with PHP8 attribute support and better deserialization handling—showing attention to backward compatibility and testing. A former teacher and consultant, he pairs mentorship and technology evaluation skills with a habit of experimenting to optimize developer workflow. Even off-hours he’s a pragmatic problem-solver who appreciates a good cup of coffee while prototyping solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
System Analysis and Development, Information Technology, System Analysis and Development, Information Technology at Instituto Metodista Izabela HendrixSystem Analysis and Development, System Analysis and Development at Centro Universitário UNA
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
annotation-processing10
deserialization10
php10
data-serialization10
annotations10
serialization10
unit-testing9
html6
css6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
schmittjoh/serializer
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity (supports JSON, and XML)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Joao primarily contributed to improving the `schmittjoh/serializer` library, which focuses on data serialization and deserialization. Their work included removing deprecated code, adding support for PHP8 attributes, and modifying the code to include default values in the deserialization process. They also added a new test case related to constructor property promotion and default values, enhancing the library's functionality and maintainability.
xml
joaojacome/bitwarden-ssh-agent
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Small python script to load bitwarden-store ssh keys into ssh-agent
Contributions:10 reviews, 14 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 8 months
pythonssh-agentssh-keys
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