Joel Pinheiro
Lead Software Engineer at Fliff Inc
Portugal
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Top SchoolJoel Pinheiro is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-reliability backend systems for regulated and high-volume domains, currently driving payments, compliance, and sports-data infrastructure at Fliff in Portugal. He blends hands-on distributed systems work (Kafka, Spark, Vitess sharding, Django LTS migrations) with people leadership, having led teams of up to seven engineers and taken rapid promotions by owning complex codebases. Joel has a track record of improving performance and cost-efficiency—doubling write throughput, shaving DB query time, and handling ~$80M/month in payment volume—while implementing KYC, geolocation controls, and multi-provider data mapping. He’s comfortable across the stack from ML pipelines and data lakes to low-latency event streaming and on-call reliability, and he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to product compliance and operational safety. Something less obvious: he repeatedly moves quickly from ramp-up to leadership, often becoming the technical owner within months of joining a new domain.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. in Computer and Telematics Engineering, Engenharia de Software, MSc. in Computer and Telematics Engineering, Engenharia de Software at Universidade de Aveiro
Spanish, French, English, Portuguese
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Github contributions (5)
joelpinheiro/joelpinheiro.github.io
Mar 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:117 commits, 98 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
joelpinheiro/Safebox-Smartcard-Auth
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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