Joel Teixeira
Platform Engineer
Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoel Teixeira is a Platform Engineer based in Porto with 8 years of experience building and operating cloud-native contact center platforms and developer-facing infrastructure. He has progressed from intern to Platform Engineer at FARFETCH after hands-on roles at BySide, where he implemented features, ran on-call operations, and mentored junior engineers across Node.js, TypeScript, PHP, MySQL, Redis, Docker and telephony stacks. Known as a problem solver by heart and coder by craft, he combines production reliability focus with customer-facing feature delivery and a knack for pragmatic automation. His background includes building a Google Drive–backed backup solution early in his career, reflecting a tendency to repurpose APIs into practical tooling.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
12º ano, Curso Científico Tecnologico, 12º ano, Curso Científico Tecnologico at Escola Secundaria do Castelo da MaiaMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (47)
api-management10
kubernetes10
artificial-intelligence10
docker10
reverse-proxy10
charts10
load-balancing10
vmware10
kong-plugin10
luajit10
consul10
api10
helm10
gateway10
api-gateway10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joelact/drachtio-srf
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
drachtio signaling resource framework
Contributions:24 pushes in 2 years 7 months
drachtiosignaling
joelact/kong
Mar 2024 - Jun 2024
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Contributions:20 pushes in 2 months
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