José Sousa
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Sousa is an Engineering Manager with 10 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, now leading Real User Monitoring foundations at Datadog from Lisbon. He combines deep front-end and back-end expertise—TypeScript, React, micro-frontends, GraphQL and Kubernetes—with a track record of shipping customer-facing, scalable platforms and design systems. At Feedzai he scaled and managed cross-functional teams across RiskOps and Identity/Product Analytics, earning recognition for excellence in management. He’s passionate about developer productivity and GitOps-driven delivery, and regularly coaches peers and other engineering managers on technical leadership. A former frontend engineer and mentor for Udacity programs, he still trains teams on testing, PWAs and migration strategies, blending practical pedagogy with delivery focus. Quietly, he prefers unlocking teams’ potential through coaching and infrastructure improvements rather than spotlight-driven leadership.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de CoimbraMobile Web Specialist Nanodegree Web Developer Scholarship by Google, Mobile Web Specialist Nanodegree Web Developer Scholarship by Google at UdacityHigh School Information Technology, High School Information Technology at Escola Secundária de Avelar Brotero
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (69)
testing10
e2e10
javascript10
browser10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
directives10
test-automation10
angular-testing-library10
testing-library10
test-suite10
cypress10
svelte-testing-library10
test-runner10
wait10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jcdesousa/react-first-app
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
jcdesousa/mws-restaurant
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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