Luís Afonso is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, secure, and scalable systems across back-end, mobile, and infrastructure. As Principal Engineer at YData and now running CookieBytes, he has led Kubernetes-based microservices, integrations with Kubeflow and DASK, and payment/device integration projects that bridge digital and physical checkout experiences. He blends hands-on coding (Python, Swift, Next.js, Cython) with architecture and delivery ownership—shipping production libraries to PyPI and implementing licensing and metering systems. A pragmatic technical lead, he prioritizes security (distroless images, multi-layer docker builds, custom auth/OIDC) and maintainability, reflected in open-source contributions to ydata-profiling focused on linting, typing and packaging. Based in Portugal, he pairs startup founder grit with deep systems experience and a knack for turning complex integrations into smooth user journeys.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Technician Informatics, Technician Informatics at Ancorensis
Master's degree Computer and Telematics Engineering, Master's degree Computer and Telematics Engineering at Universidade de Aveiro
1 Line of code data quality profiling & exploratory data analysis for Pandas and Spark DataFrames.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Contributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 9 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Luís primarily contributed to the project by applying linting rules and updating dependencies, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. They also bumped the version number, updated the changelog, and addressed build process compliance with PyPI. Furthermore, the user addressed code formatting and typing annotations throughout the project, revealing an understanding of Python development best practices.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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