João Sampaio
Staff Engineer at Talkdesk
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Sampaio is a Staff Engineer based in Lisbon with 12 years of cross-platform experience building elegant, user-focused iOS, macOS and web applications. He blends low-level C and compiler curiosity with modern Swift, Objective-C, Python and ES6 to craft simple, well-designed interfaces and robust backends. A long-tenured contributor at Talkdesk, he has progressed from senior engineer to staff, bringing pragmatic architecture and hands-on implementation to distributed product teams. His background spans telecom-grade tooling, VoIP/IVR systems and mobile platform work, reflecting a comfort with both systems-level and high-level application concerns. Outside work he’s a FreeBSD afficionado and compiler enthusiast, a detail that informs his emphasis on correctness and performance.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Lisbon
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
camp8
procfile7
shell6
nsdictionary6
nsarray6
design-patterns6
cocoa6
objective-c6
data-formats6
key-value6
meta4
nginx-module4
react4
inspect4
api3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jsmp/localdev.in
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
jsmp/mlx-swift-examples
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 months
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