José Sousa
Developer Relations & Technical BD Lead
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Sousa is a Developer Relations and Technical BD lead with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack and zero-knowledge blockchain products and developer ecosystems from Porto, Portugal. Formerly a professional cellist and music teacher, he brings a rare combination of pedagogy and technical craft to developer education, tooling, and community growth—having supported over 2,000 developers across Aztec’s Noir ecosystem. He has shipped integrations and tooling at Polygon (Nightfall, Hermez) and built end-to-end blockchain solutions and SDKs for gaming and reward systems, pairing Solidity, Rust/Circom/Noir, Node/React and cloud infrastructure. Comfortable bridging product, enterprise and engineering teams, José has led technical project management and developer programs while producing tutorials, docs and examples that lower the barrier to entry for complex ZK tech. His background in performance and teaching gives him an uncommon knack for explaining intricate protocols and debugging developer issues in real time.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado, Ensino de Música, Mestrado, Ensino de Música at Escola Superior de Artes AplicadasERASMUS, Violoncelo, ERASMUS, Violoncelo at Pôle Supérieur de Paris Boulogne-Billancourt
French, English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (141)
programming-language10
taxonomy10
python10
optimistic10
cryptocurrency10
polygon10
proofs10
rel10
pos10
coq10
compiler10
decentralization10
matic10
noir10
staking10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
signorecello/covid-form
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
An easy form for reporting COVID cases I made for my local hospital
Contributions:18 PRs, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
caseseasy-formhospitalexpressjsreporting
AztecProtocol/noir-starter
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:19 reviews, 67 PRs, 230 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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