Nando Machado
Senior Engineer at Sainsbury's Digital, Tech and Data
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNando Machado is a senior software engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building scalable platform and e-commerce systems, currently shaping technical direction and mentoring teams at Sainsbury’s Tech. He has a strong backend background—authoring high-test-coverage Go services and breaking monoliths into microservices—while also delivering impactful frontend redesigns for audience-building and data trading platforms. Nando combines hands-on delivery with cross-team leadership, standardising practices that reduce technical debt and accelerating engineer onboarding. Before returning to software he ran a successful photography business and documented environmental crimes for major outlets, a background that informs his passion for sustainability and has driven features that nudge customers toward greener choices. His unusual blend of storytelling, product sensitivity, and systems thinking makes him effective at translating complex requirements into pragmatic, measurable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology at The Open UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at UnisinosFETAC Certificate in photography Photography, FETAC Certificate in photography Photography at Marino College, Dublin, Ireland
English, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese
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Github Skills (34)
regular-intervals9
sms-messages9
slot8
protect8
twilio8
sms7
wordpress7
ats7
wordpress-plugin7
react6
audio6
go6
goland6
apple-m16
typescript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
icenando/marvel
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023
This one page app was created as part of a technical test for a potential employer. It uses Python with Flask in the background to feed data into an HTML/CSS webpage.
Contributions:6 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
cssflaskjinja2python
icenando/Italian_Consulate
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Checks for passport renewal appointments availability at the Italian Consulate in London at regular intervals. Once an available slot is found, it notifies the user via SMS.
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 2 months
appointmentspythonsms-messagesatsnotifies
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