João Pinheiro
Co-Founder at BlackShield
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Pinheiro is a seasoned software leader and founder based in Porto with over two decades of hands-on coding and 12 years in senior technical leadership roles. He co-founded BlackShield and has served as CTO or tech lead across multiple startups and scale-ups, designing high-performance, scalable platforms and driving architecture, ops and team processes. His background spans distributed systems, PHP-based frameworks, search and messaging stacks (ElasticSearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ), and BSD/Linux system engineering—skills he has repeatedly applied to international products and marketplaces. João combines CEO-level product thinking from his founder days with deep technical execution, from low-level system tuning to CI/CD and release management. He also has a long history of embedded security and infrastructure work dating back to early BSD firewall talks, which informs a pragmatic, security-minded approach to platform design. Colleagues know him for turning legacy codebases into scalable, production-grade systems while keeping teams aligned on long-term roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
---Industrial Automation/Robotics, Industrial Automation/Robotics at Colegio de Gaia
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (47)
phalcon9
php9
php-extension9
configurations9
3d-printing9
c-extension9
high-performance8
pdf8
firmware8
converter8
pdf-generation7
full-stack7
css7
js6
scraper6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oddbit-project/rick_db
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Python SQL Object Mapper
Contributions:8 releases, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 9 months
oddbit-project/pokie
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:18 releases, 9 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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