José Massada
Principal Engineer at Kaizen Gaming
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Massada is a Principal Engineer based in Porto with 11 years of hands-on experience building embedded, desktop, mobile and backend systems across a wide range of languages (C/C++, Objective‑C/Swift, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript and more). He has progressed from firmware and electrical CAD work to senior backend roles at companies like Transport for London and Farfetch, and now leads engineering at Kaizen Gaming, combining systems-level thinking with large-scale service delivery. A former founder of a consumer startup (Meyash), he brings product-minded pragmatism and an appreciation for design and social impact to technical decisions. His career shows a rare blend of low-level embedded expertise and modern backend engineering, enabling him to bridge hardware constraints and cloud-scale architectures.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Computer Engineering Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Computer Engineering Electronics at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (69)
nuget10
perl10
avro10
dotnet10
kafka10
full-stack10
java10
apache-kafka10
csharp10
data-serialization9
python9
ruby9
nuxt9
php9
vue9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
massada/kafka-flow
Oct 2020 - Jul 2024
KafkaFlow is a .NET framework to consume and produce Kafka messages with multi-threading support. It's very simple to use and very extendable. You just need to install, configure, start/stop the bus with your app and create a middleware/handler to process the messages.
Contributions:19 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 10 months
multi-threadingsimple-to-useconsumec-sharpconfigure
massada/optimize-image-webpack-loader
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Optimize image loader
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
image-loaderwebpack-loader
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