Summary
Mário Nzualo is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years building scalable, customer-focused web platforms, currently contributing to Duna from Lisbon. He specializes in end-to-end backend work—particularly Ruby on Rails—and has led tech and scaling efforts at Stripe, Airbnb and HotelTonight, including database partitioning, custom schedulers and launching Stripe Tax as an early team member. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs pragmatic product delivery with infrastructure skills in AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kafka and both SQL and NoSQL stores. His MSc in Telecommunications and international extracurricular leadership experience underpin strong project management and cross-cultural collaboration abilities. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often prefers solving operational bottlenecks and incident mitigation as much as feature development.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Elementary Preparatory High School, Elementary Preparatory High School at Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique
Technical University of Denmark
Master Degree Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering, Master Degree Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, French