Nelson Mfinda
Senior Software Engineer at Jumia Porto Tech Center
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolNelson Mfinda is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance microservices and distributed systems. He has repeatedly led architecture and implementation efforts—especially in payments and backend services—while driving observability, cost optimization, and robust error handling across cloud-native environments. Comfortable across Node, Go, Ruby, Python and Elixir stacks, he blends DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana) with pragmatic engineering processes like TDD and CI/CD. Nelson also mentors teams, establishes coding standards, and turns legacy systems into maintainable platforms, having shipped performance-critical APIs for large e-commerce and fintech products. An open-source and learning enthusiast, he pairs formal software engineering training with recent data-science studies to continuously broaden his technical toolkit.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree ALX Data Science, Associate's degree ALX Data Science at ExploreAI AcademyBachelor degree Software Engineer, Bachelor degree Software Engineer at University Methodist of AngolaCertification Front End Libraries, Certification Front End Libraries at freeCodeCamp
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (132)
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mental-health8
rspec7
ruby-on-rails7
authentication7
api7
shell7
capybara7
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nelsonmfinda/nelsonmfinda.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
My personal Website
Contributions:6 releases, 166 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 1 month
reactnextjs
usekamba/kamba-php-sdk
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
riophpphp-sdksdk
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