Joaquim Torres
Staff Software Engineer at Nubank
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJoaquim Torres is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building critical internal platforms and leading cross-team systems design at scale. At Nubank he progressed from engineer to lead and now staff, driving platform initiatives that serve hundreds of internal stakeholders and align technical work to business goals. He combines hands-on implementation (keeping 70–80% time in coding) with people leadership—mentoring dozens of engineers, running hiring processes, and conducting hundreds of interviews. His background spans early-stage and larger companies across Europe, giving him broad operational perspective beyond pure engineering. He values quality-driven engineering cultures anchored in open communication and strong business acuity. Notably, he has balanced deep technical ownership with program-level coordination, making him adept at turning complex organizational needs into practical, reliable systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering and Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering and Information Technology at ISEL
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (110)
emacs9
fault-tolerant9
fault9
vim8
spacemacs8
distributed-computing8
elastic8
data-stream7
ruby7
docker-container7
melpa7
emacs-lsp7
data-processing7
high-performance7
spark7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jqmtor/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:75 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 7 months
macosdefaultssensiblewrench
jqmtor/elasticsearch-intro
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 4 days
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