Miguel Gallindo
Senior Staff Software Engineer at iFood
Pernambuco, Brazil
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Top SchoolMiguel Gallindo is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and AI Platform Architect based in Pernambuco, Brazil, with over 20 years in the industry and 12 years of focused experience delivering backend and distributed systems. He has led architecture and platform efforts at major Brazilian fintechs like iFood, PicPay and Inter, specializing in Java, microservices, Kafka, cloud infrastructure and observability. Miguel combines hands-on engineering—maintaining Kafka clusters and building cross-language client libraries—with team leadership and developer mentoring to turn complex migration and reliability challenges into repeatable platforms. His open-source work includes significant contributions to Liferay plugins, improving calendar export/import behavior and UI quirks, reflecting a practical eye for both backend robustness and frontend polish. Recently upskilling in AI product design through MIT xPRO, he blends deep systems experience with a growing focus on productionizing AI-powered services.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Designing and Building AI Products and Services Artificial Intelligence, Designing and Building AI Products and Services Artificial Intelligence at MIT xPRO
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
liferay10
jspx10
java10
jsp10
calendars10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
javascript9
uid9
css8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-plugins
Sep 2013 - Jul 2014
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Miguel primarily contributed to the calendar portlet, fixing bugs and implementing new features. Their work includes resolving issues with calendar export functionality, specifically addressing all-day events and status filtering. They also addressed import functionality problems by adding a close button and fixing errors, along with enhancing the UI by changing the z-index to fix events appearing over the dockbar. The user also added features such as displaying recurrence summaries.
gallindo/liferay-portal
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 72 pushes, 32 branches in 1 year 4 months
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