João Santos
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Santos is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building backend systems and APIs, currently advancing platform engineering at Zalando. He brings deep Python expertise and a pragmatic, spec-first approach to API design, evidenced by notable contributions to the popular Connexion framework where he improved request handling, logging, and refactored core API construction. His background spans public sector procurement software and regional media leadership, giving him a blend of product focus and operational perspective uncommon in pure engineering tracks. Educated in Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, João pairs solid academic foundations with a track record of shipping maintainable, dependency-conscious code in large-scale environments.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics Engineering, Informatics Engineering at Universidade do MinhoBachelor's Degree, Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering at Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Lamego
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (9)
swagger10
api10
python10
apidoc10
openapi10
flask10
flask-ask10
pyyaml7
tornado7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spec-first/connexion
Apr 2015 - May 2019
Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 2 reviews, 269 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:João primarily contributed to the `spec-first/connexion` repository by implementing and modifying core features related to the framework's functionality. Their commits include making Flask's request object available within the Connexion module, fixing dependencies and imports, adding logging capabilities, and providing an example. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by moving API creation to a separate class and adding default values to the parameters of the App class.
redocpythonflaskapi-firstendpoint
jmcs/python-gitconfig
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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