Luiz Picanço
Senior Software Engineer at Sky Portugal
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolLuiz Picanço is a senior software engineer based in Lisbon with over 15 years building distributed systems and high-performance microservices across telecommunications, finance, and logistics. He is fluent in Kotlin, Java, C#, and Python, and has architected scalable APIs, event-driven platforms, and data-heavy services using Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and Elasticsearch. At Loggi he led cross-functional initiatives that cut planning time from days to hours, enabled sub-10ms P90 responses at 120 RPS, and replaced code-based customizations with a rule-engine configuration tool. He combines hands-on engineering with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) and strong advocacy for CI/CD and TDD, mentoring teams to raise delivery quality. An active open-source contributor and former database lead for the Rinha de Backend project, he brings pragmatic design trade-offs and operational know-how to complex, production-critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (16)
schema-design10
postgresql10
schema10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
database-administration9
pandas6
chromium6
bash6
scroll6
scrollto6
jquery6
dataframe6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zanfranceschi/rinha-de-backend-2024-q1
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Repositório da 2ª edição da Rinha de Backend
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:9 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Luiz primarily focused on database schema design and implementation for the "Rinha de Backend" project. Their contributions included creating tables, defining data types, and establishing relationships within the database. Several commits involved modifying the schema, suggesting iterative refinement and adaptation of the database structure. Additionally, the user added initial data seeding for the clients table.
lpicanco/knostr
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Nostr Relay Implementation on Kotlin
Contributions:66 commits, 17 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 months
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