Jose Varela
Escalation Engineer
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Varela is an experienced full‑stack engineer and escalation specialist with a decade of hands‑on experience building and hardening web backends and responsive UIs from Portugal. At Directus he moves between product engineering and customer-facing escalation work, contributing fixes and features across API, database transaction handling, and frontend UX for a widely used open‑source headless CMS. He blends practical backend expertise (primary key and transaction management, data validation) with front‑end polish, enabling reliable exports and improved user workflows. Having progressed through multiple full‑stack roles since 2015 and holding an integrated Master’s in Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, he’s comfortable translating complex production issues into durable code fixes. Colleagues would note his mix of customer empathy from escalation work and deep technical troubleshooting that surfaces non‑obvious root causes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática Informática Telecomunicações Electrónica, Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática Informática Telecomunicações Electrónica at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
vue10
api9
nodejs9
database8
sql8
databases8
wpgraphql7
typescript7
wordpress-graphql7
typescript-types7
graphql7
typescripts7
headless-cms6
expressjs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
directus/directus
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 134 commits, 171 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily worked on enhancing the Directus backend and frontend, focusing on bug fixes and feature implementations across the API and the application. They addressed issues related to database interactions, primary key handling, and transaction management within the API. Furthermore, the user contributed to the frontend by modifying user interface components and making improvements to the user experience. The user also ensured the code's robustness by implementing proper data validation, and improved the functionality of export.
cmsno-codecollaborationintuitivevue
joselcvarela/ng2-carouselamos
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Simple carousel/slider for angular 2.
Contributions:1 release, 45 commits, 21 PRs in 2 years 5 months
carousel-sliderslidercarouselangular7angular
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