Nelson Oliveira
Group Engineering Manager at SoSafe
Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region Germany
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Top SchoolNelson Oliveira is a Group Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, currently leading engineering at SoSafe. A backend-first technologist and functional programming enthusiast, he has strong hands-on roots in Node.js, TypeScript, Python and AWS while evolving into people leadership and cross-team architecture roles. He has repeatedly transformed transit and payments platforms—driving API design, scalability, observability and engineering culture at companies like moovel, Grover and Spendesk. Known for mentoring engineers and shaping guilds/chapters, he blends pragmatic technical decisions with investment in developer growth. Outside work he’s a self-described gamer and sword enthusiast, a detail that underscores a curious, playful approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação Software Engineering / Development, Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação Software Engineering / Development at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
French, German, Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (31)
controller9
fastify9
swagger9
rest9
documentation-generator9
internet-radio8
mopidy8
graphql8
documentation8
openapi8
sonos8
nodejs8
music-streaming8
icecast7
monorepo7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nelspike/config-files
Feb 2018 - Sep 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
Nelspike/Nelspike.github.io
Feb 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:33 pushes in 9 years 8 months
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