Summary
João Marques is a Senior Software Developer and Team Lead based in Lisbon with seven years of focused professional experience and a longer engineering background across telematics and fleet-management companies. He brings hands-on expertise in cloud-native AWS architectures, backend development in C#, Java/Scala, and relational databases like SQL Server and MySQL, driving delivery and mentoring teams at Verizon Connect since 2017. João combines rigorous academic training (BSc and MSc in Informatics and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico) with practical systems-building across startups and large vendors, giving him a strong grounding in both legacy and modern distributed systems. He’s known for translating complex operational requirements into reliable, scalable services for fleet telematics—a domain where uptime and data integrity matter as much as feature velocity.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Junior High, Graded 17 out of 20., Junior High, Graded 17 out of 20. at Escola Secundária Emídio Navarro
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Informatics and Computer Engineering, Graded 16 out of 20., Bachelor of Science (BSc), Informatics and Computer Engineering, Graded 16 out of 20. at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English