Miguel Teixeira
Staff Software Engineer at Onfido
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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SeniorMiguel Teixeira is a Staff Software Engineer based in Lisbon with 15 years of experience building and evolving web platforms across Ruby, Elixir, PHP and JavaScript stacks. He has progressed from full‑stack roles at SAPO and Seedrs to senior and staff engineering positions at Talkdesk and Onfido, focusing on pragmatic, maintainable solutions that scale. Known for hunting down tricky cross-service bugs and race conditions, he pairs strong debugging instincts with a preference for simple, evolvable designs. Miguel blends hands‑on implementation with mentorship and architectural thinking, having worked in product and consultancy contexts as well as co-founding an early Ruby/TDD shop. He consistently emphasizes CI, RESTful APIs and practical engineering trade-offs to deliver reliable production systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
55reputation
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1answer
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Github Skills (57)
programming-language9
ruby9
jit9
rust9
lint8
rspec8
testing8
static-analysis7
specification7
api7
macos6
clustering6
optimization6
ruby-on-rails6
junit6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
miguelfteixeira/dotfiles
Apr 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
GnomesLab/archive_tree
Oct 2010 - Nov 2010
Contributions:34 commits in 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsrails-applicationrubyarchive
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