José Alves
Software Engineer at Canonical
Portimão, Portugal
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJosé Alves is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who transitioned from electrotechnical engineering and telecom middleware into full‑stack development, specializing in Ruby and JavaScript ecosystems. He has driven architecture, data modeling and scalable platform engineering across finance and enterprise teams at Canonical, iCapital and UBS, and has hands‑on experience migrating legacy systems to modern SPAs and service APIs. Known for mentoring and technical leadership, he combines low‑level systems understanding (C and middleware from earlier roles) with modern frontend and backend stacks. Based in Portimão, Portugal, he balances engineering rigor with a curiosity for how things work—expressed through classical guitar, languages and avid reading—which informs a pragmatic, long‑term approach to designing solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Hebrew
Github Skills (71)
python10
linter10
cli9
ubuntu9
react-native9
static-typing9
ios9
react9
cross-platform9
android9
nodejs9
monorepo8
angular8
javascript8
extensible8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
josetapadas/quicknap
Oct 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 8 years 4 months
josetapadas/archeo
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Archeological inventory app
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
inventoryreactinventory-app
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