Nelson Ferraz
Software Engineer II at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Ferraz is a software engineer with 16 years of experience blending software development, electrical engineering, and business information systems to solve complex problems at scale. Based in Amsterdam, he has spent the bulk of his career at Booking.com where he progressed from developer to Software Engineer II, shipping major infrastructure and network security improvements and leading onboarding efforts that increased developer productivity and deployment frequency. His background includes cross-functional projects at eBay and comScore, migrating legacy web platforms to responsive architectures and optimizing JavaScript deployed to millions of users. Nelson brings a systems-minded approach—rewriting web services frameworks, enabling plugin-based services and continuous deployment—and a pragmatic focus on operational reliability. He combines technical depth with business sensibility from an MBA in Business Information Systems, making him effective at translating product needs into secure, scalable engineering outcomes. Notably, his early work helping build Brazil’s Perl community reflects a long-standing commitment to developer ecosystems and knowledge sharing.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Master in Business Information Systems, MBA, Master in Business Information Systems at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
histogram9
statistics6
api6
perl6
cli5
python5
openai2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kthakore/TetrisPL
Sep 2009 - Sep 2009
Contributions:60 commits in 4 days
nferraz/adventures
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:17 commits in 9 days
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