João Pescada
Senior Software Engineer at Balance
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Pescada is a pragmatic senior software engineer based in Lisbon with 15 years of hands-on experience building front-end-first and fullstack digital products for startups, agencies and SMEs across banking, healthcare, retail, and more in Portugal, the UK and the USA. He combines strategy, direction and execution—shipping POCs, MVPs and production apps while also hiring and leading small product teams to align technology with business goals. Comfortable working solo or as a team lead, he has repeatedly improved UX, performance and delivery rhythms on projects ranging from bank-grade mobile apps to industry-certified web platforms. His background spans creative agencies to fintech and enterprise clients, giving him a rare mix of design sensibility and robust engineering practices. Notably, he’s built cross-platform HTML5/PhoneGap apps that reached tens of thousands of users and has a long track record of refactoring legacy codebases into component-driven, high-performance frontends.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Interactive Multimedia, Interactive Multimedia at Universidade de AveiroMaster's degree Design Illustration Coding Business, Master's degree Design Illustration Coding Business at Self-taught
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
twitter9
twitter-api9
flite9
tweepy9
ssh8
text-to-speech8
peewee8
electron7
linux7
typescript7
python7
sqlite7
docker7
videojs6
camera6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jpescada/Canvas-Anonymous-Message
May 2012 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 7 years 7 months
jpescada/treehouse-social-python
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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