Júlio Zynger
Staff Software Engineer at Zenjob
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJúlio Zynger is a Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building resilient, cross-platform systems and developer tools. He blends hands-on implementation (mobile, backend, web, infra) with technical strategy, having led developer productivity and platform initiatives at Gradle and Zenjob to reduce lead time and improve developer experience. At SoundCloud he worked across media playback, cloud migration, CI/CD and SRE, contributing to playback engines, observability tooling and on-call practices. He is an active open-source contributor to Backstage—adding a GoCD plugin, DORA metrics and UI improvements—demonstrating both frontend (TypeScript/React) and backend (Go) fluency. Known for working comfortably in ambiguous contexts, Júlio shifts between tech lead, embedded consultant and mentor roles to align engineering execution with business outcomes. His early entrepreneurial success with consumer apps (over a million downloads) reveals a product-minded engineer who pairs technical depth with user-focused instincts.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Sandwich Graduation Computer Science, Sandwich Graduation Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyComputer Science Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Computer Science Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, French, Hebrew, German
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Github Skills (17)
typescript10
backstage10
typescript-types10
gocd10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
portal9
cnc8
google-play-developer-api6
google-search6
eventbus6
google-chrome6
android6
deep-linking6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 71 commits, 11 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Júlio primarily contributed to the GoCD plugin within the Backstage framework, adding features such as table pagination and DORA metrics insights. They implemented changes in both the client-side (TypeScript) and component-side (React) code. Furthermore, the user added a new plugin to the Backstage framework and updated existing configurations to align with code best practices.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
julioz/instantsonar
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:82 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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