Luis Couto
Senior Principal Software Manager at Infinera
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Couto is a Senior Principal Software Manager based in Lisbon with 13+ years driving C/C++ embedded Linux development for optical networks and a strong leadership track record across Nokia, Infinera, Coriant and Siemens. He combines hands-on systems engineering with line and project management, shaping teams, delivery practices and CI pipelines for complex telecom products. Known for pragmatic architecture and code-first leadership, he has led firmware and system-level projects on hiT7500-class platforms and scaled development processes across organizations. Luis also contributes to open-source tooling—improving webpack's babel-loader with source-map support and a cache system—demonstrating fluency across both low-level embedded and full-stack ecosystems. He pairs a Licentiate in Computer Software Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico with a culture of continuous improvement and a dry sense of humor evident in his GitHub bio. Colleagues rely on him to translate demanding optical-network requirements into maintainable, testable software and team practices.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree (pre Bolonha) Computer Software Engineering, Licentiate degree (pre Bolonha) Computer Software Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (13)
loader10
babel610
caching10
babeljs10
javascript10
disk-cache10
object-cache10
memory-cache10
web-cache10
webpacker10
babel-core10
webpack10
sourcemaps9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
babel/babel-loader
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
📦 Babel loader for webpack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:173 commits, 41 PRs, 99 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Luis contributed to the Babel loader for webpack by implementing support for source maps, improving validation, and removing unused variables. They refactored cache-related functions into their own file for better organization and maintainability. Additionally, the user made significant progress in creating a cache system for transpiled files, adding the ability to specify the Babelrc file for cache purposes.
babeljavascriptbabel-pluginbabel-loaderwebpack
Couto/grunt-groundskeeper
Nov 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 11 months
console-statementsstatementsdebuggerconsole
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