João Pereira
Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Pereira is a Staff Backend Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems at global scale, currently driving backend work at GitLab from Lisbon. He specializes in cloud-native container infrastructure and registry APIs, contributing notable enhancements to the widely used distribution/distribution project such as tag listing pagination and tag deletion APIs with thorough testing. His career spans middleware and SOA work to leading core development teams, giving him deep expertise in robust API design, error handling, and maintainable refactors. Known for pragmatic engineering and thoughtful code improvements, he blends hands-on contributions to open-source with mentoring and system-level thinking informed by an MSc in Computer Science.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc in Computer Science, BSc in Computer Science at Universidade da Beira Interior
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (22)
docker10
apidoc10
testing10
dockers10
go10
api10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
occi8
distributions8
container8
github-ci7
githubaction-workflow7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
distribution/distribution
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 reviews, 35 commits, 45 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:João primarily contributed to enhancing the registry's API functionality. They added features like pagination for tag listing and implemented a tag deletion API, including comprehensive testing. Furthermore, the user addressed issues, such as fixing tests related to listeners and handling potential errors within the API. They also refactored existing code by grouping case values and applying feedback to improve code maintainability.
containersshipdockerdelivercncf
joaodrp/gelf-formatter
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
GELF formatter for the Python standard library logging module.
Contributions:5 releases, 40 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 1 month
pythonstandard-pythongrayloglogginglogging-library
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