João Serpa
Co-founder & Engineering Lead at OnePilot - Software para Stands de Automóveis
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Serpa is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building full-stack products and cloud-native infrastructure. He combines hands-on DevOps, systems thinking and product instincts—turning customer problems into small experiments and scalable solutions while running OnePilot, a bootstrapped SaaS for used car dealerships in Portugal. His background spans geological engineering and hotel management to computer science, which informs a cross-disciplinary, systems-oriented approach to teams and processes. João has led infrastructure and CI/CD at scale—designing Terraform/Azure stacks, Kubernetes clusters and GitOps workflows for multi-team organisations. He prefers breadth over tunnel vision, reading across philosophy and psychology to improve team autonomy and decision-making. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs technical depth with customer focus and a bias for practical experiments over grand plans.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation Informatics, Graduation Informatics at ISTEC - Instituto Superior de Técnologias AvançadasCertificate Web Development, Certificate Web Development at Formabase, lda.Licenciatura em Gestão e Administração Hoteleira Hotel and Restaurant Management, Licenciatura em Gestão e Administração Hoteleira Hotel and Restaurant Management at Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (166)
commitizen10
php-fpm10
lamp10
vagrant10
lemp10
microsoft-graph10
semantic-versioning10
conventional-commits9
browser9
ansible9
virtualization9
ruby9
automation9
ansible-role9
azure-active-directory9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Daniel-C-Dias/psc16
Sep 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 3 months
jserpapinto/jserpapinto.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:41 pushes in 3 months
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