Miguel Galves
CTO & Co-Founder at Bold Capital
Greater São Paulo Area Brazil
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Top SchoolMiguel Galves is a seasoned entrepreneurial software engineer and CTO with 13 years of experience building startups and scalable cloud systems from prototype to production. As co-founder and CTO of Qipu Brasil and earlier SIGA, he designed architectures and led full-stack development using Python/Django, MySQL, Redis and AWS, turning small proofs-of-concept into robust, cloud-based platforms. His background spans domains from geolocation APIs at Apontador to bioinformatics and air-traffic control interfaces, reflecting a talent for applying rigorous engineering to diverse, high-stakes problems. He mentors early-stage founders at Bold Capital, combining hands-on coding experience with product and team leadership. Comfortable operating across low-level C/C++ image analysis to high-level web services, he brings both academic depth (MSc in Computer Science/Bioinformatics) and practical startup grit. Based in Greater São Paulo, he pairs technical curiosity with a track record of shipping impactful, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lycee Pasteur - Sao PauloMSc Computer Science - Bioinformatics, MSc Computer Science - Bioinformatics at Universidade Estadual de CampinasHigh school, High school at Lycee Edgar Quinet (Paris, France)
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
wikibase9
django9
wikidata8
htmx8
wikimedia8
cross-browser6
parse6
jquery6
height6
phonegap6
cordova-ios5
facebook5
migration5
wordpress5
cordova5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mgalves/tweets
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
wikimediabrasil/quickstatements3
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Repository for the development of a new version of QuickStatements
Contributions:61 reviews, 60 PRs, 70 pushes in 7 months
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