Luís Brandão
Senior Software Engineer at Conflixis
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLuís Brandão is a Senior Software Engineer and technical leader based in Lisbon with 15 years of experience building resilient, high-performance backend systems and leading cross-functional teams. He has driven large migrations and rewrites—moving long-lived monoliths to distributed microservices, modernizing stacks (Python 2→3, Kotlin/Spring Boot rewrites) and introducing continuous delivery to speed releases. At BuzzFeed he architected real-time ranking and a public API used across platforms, and later led engineering and product delivery at startups and scaleups, blending hands-on coding with hiring and process design. Passionate about sustainability and urban mobility, he focuses on using technology to improve city life while balancing product impact and engineering craft. Notably, he combines an academic AI background (MSc, University of Amsterdam) with recent creative study in photography, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving and user-centered design.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Photography, Photography at ar.co - centro de arte e comunicaçãoBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de LisboaEuropean Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2007, European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2007 at Trinity College DublinMSc., Artificial Intelligence, MSc., Artificial Intelligence at University of Amsterdam
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (16)
slack-bot10
slack-api10
websocket-client9
kotlin9
bolt9
websocket8
chatbot8
java8
slack7
jvm-languages7
javascript7
jvm6
micronaut5
admin2
phonon1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Zeega/Zeega
Feb 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:579 commits in 1 year 1 month
lfbrandao/lfbrandao.github.com
Jun 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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