Marco Castanho
Head Of Backend at SayNode Operations AG
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Castanho is a pragmatic engineering leader and Head of Backend based in Lisbon with nine years of hands-on experience designing and delivering backend-first, full-stack systems for clients and platforms. He has led technical teams and projects across consulting, enterprise, and nonprofit sectors—most recently driving backend strategy at SayNode and platform engineering work via Toptal and the New York Academy of Sciences. Comfortable across Node, Python, microservices, gRPC and cloud platforms, he blends architecture, hands-on coding and stakeholder-facing responsibilities from requirements to deployment. A former MSc researcher in wireless video optimization, he brings an analytical mindset to performance and systems design and a knack for translating complex requirements into pragmatic solutions. Outside work he’s an amateur woodworker—suggesting the same attention to craft and detail he applies to code.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science and Technologies, High School Science and Technologies at Escola Secundária de S. LourençoMaster's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian
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Github Skills (41)
slide7
react-router6
react6
android6
typeorm6
pseudocode6
pure-react-carousel6
integrate5
javascript5
socket4
django4
django-admin4
react-carousel3
sentry3
validate3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
marcomartinscastanho/Smarteam
Sep 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 211 commits, 48 pushes in 3 years 6 months
marcomartinscastanho/criterion-challenge
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 50 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
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