José Magalhães
Senior Software Architect at FARFETCH
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Magalhães is a Senior Software Architect based in Porto with a decade-plus career designing cloud-native, microservices-driven systems and a strong track record at FARFETCH. He combines hands-on engineering in .NET, Kubernetes, AKS, Kafka and OpenTelemetry with practical leadership—having led teams, defined best practices, and driven large migrations from legacy stacks to containerized platforms. Notable achievements include architecting an internal observability overhaul that cut vendor costs by ~50% and eliminating vendor lock-in to save the company around $1M. He’s experienced in building robust messaging contracts with Confluent Schema Registry and optimizing AKS deployments for performance and cost using Spot instances and intelligent scheduling. Comfortable moving between code, documentation, and cross-team coordination, José excels at turning complex distributed challenges into scalable, maintainable solutions. His background in creative software systems and early work on public APIs underscores a blend of system design creativity and production-grade discipline.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusLicentiate, Informatics Engineering (Computer Science), Licentiate, Informatics Engineering (Computer Science) at ESTGF.IPP
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
nuget10
dotnet10
sink10
producer10
apache-kafka10
csharp10
kubernetes9
avro9
perl9
charts9
kafka9
grafana9
dotnet-core9
helm9
opentelemetry9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zehenrique/DistributedCache.Cassandra
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
zehenrique/avro
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Apache Avro is a data serialization system.
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
avrodeserializationparquetserializationapache
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