João Paiva
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Paiva is a systems engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating complex distributed systems, currently at Cloudflare after a multi-year technical leadership track at Talkdesk. He combines a strong academic foundation (BSc, MSc, PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico) with hands-on startup and production experience, turning research-grade ideas into reliable, scalable services. João thrives in collaborative environments, enjoys simplifying intricate problems into clear, actionable solutions, and values creative non-technical approaches to technical challenges. His time transitioning from academia to high-growth product teams sharpened his adaptability, persistence, and comfort with rapid change. Based in Lisbon, he brings both research rigor and pragmatic engineering to infrastructure and systems design. A curiosity-driven engineer, he’s as interested in the social and process aspects of systems as in their code and architecture.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., B.Sc. at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (77)
multithreading10
rust-wasm10
asmjs10
cloudflare-api10
jsx10
concurrency10
markdown10
elm10
api10
sdk10
emscripten10
rust10
minesweeper10
cloudflare-dns10
mdx10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jgpaiva/GridMove
Feb 2013 - Feb 2018
GridMove is a program that aims at making windows management easier. It helps you with this task by defining a visual grid on your desktop, to which you can easily snap windows.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years
windowsaimssnapdesktopgrid
jgpaiva/peersim_replication
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 2 months
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