João Leitão
Senior Software Engineer at Farfetch
Ponta Delgada, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Leitão is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and maintaining distributed systems, currently at Farfetch in Ponta Delgada, Portugal. He began his career in transportation software, delivering end-to-end solutions from point-of-sale and customer service to billing and reporting, which gave him a practical appreciation for cross-system integration. João excels at making disparate services work together reliably at scale and prefers solving the pragmatic challenges of interoperability and operational resilience. His background includes progressive engineering roles at Novabase and advanced academic training with an MSc in Computer Science from Instituto Superior Técnico, combining strong theory with hands-on production experience. A detail that sets him apart is his focus on the “last mile” of system coordination—ensuring systems not only scale but communicate and recover gracefully in the real world.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidade dos AçoresMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (8)
dotnet8
csharp7
linux7
windows6
asp-net6
asp-net-core6
dotnet-core6
cross-platform5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
johnyk87/nugettools
May 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes in 4 years 2 months
johnyk87/monitoringtools
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Monitoring tools
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
monitoringmonitoring-toolsprometheus
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