João Ponte
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJoão Ponte is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building full-stack and mobile applications across startups and large engineering teams. He blends pragmatic product delivery—practices like code review, pair programming and Scrum—with a growing passion for functional and reactive programming informed by recent Scala work. His background spans Android engineering, data engineering, and web development, and he experiments with Python and machine learning in personal projects. Currently at Zalando, João brings cross-disciplinary communication skills honed by collaborating with different departments and scientific research experience from his time at TUM. Known on GitHub as a "lasagne architect," he brings a methodical, layered approach to system design that favors composability and clarity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Informatics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Informatics at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, German
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Github Skills (63)
asynchronous10
apache-airflow10
data-pipelines10
data-science10
data-engineering10
python10
machine-learning10
workflow-engine10
apache10
elm-architecture10
scheduler10
etl10
effects10
automation10
dag10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JPonte/tyrian
May 2022 - Sep 2025
Elm-inspired Scala UI library.
Contributions:28 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
elmscalajsscalaui-library
JPonte/slick
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
scalaconnectionintegrated
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