Joao Maia
Director Of Engineering, CMS Systems at Hearst Newspapers
Spring, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoao Maia is a seasoned engineering leader with 24 years of experience building and shipping web and mobile systems, currently directing CMS engineering for Hearst Newspapers. He combines hands-on software craftsmanship—spanning PHP, MySQL, AWS, iOS, and backend architecture—with pragmatic delivery practices that emphasize velocity, quality and user-centered interfaces. Previously he led major rewrites and product initiatives at MySQL, Alert Logic and as a consultant, delivering production apps, payment integrations and scalable SaaS components. Known for instituting rigorous engineering workflows (automated builds, code review, async job processing) and mentoring teams, he balances product focus with operational discipline. Based in Spring, Texas, he brings an operator’s mentality to complex content systems and a track record of turning prototypes into customer-facing platforms.
24 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (103)
wireguard10
tailscale10
pop310
vpn10
swift10
imap10
java10
xcode10
symfony10
macos10
objective-c10
ios10
smtp10
php10
issue-tracking10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jpm/papercut
Jan 2002 - Aug 2011
Contributions:205 commits in 9 years 8 months
Operam/Operam-iOS
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 tags in 1 year 10 months
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