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Top SchoolNelson Parente is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portugal with 8 years of experience building secure, scalable authentication and authorization systems. He has led identity and policy reconstruction efforts at Anchorage Digital and drove core identity services and an OAuth2/OpenID Connect Security Token Service at FARFETCH, where he also helped produce an open-source RFC 8693 token-exchange implementation. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as an engineering lead, he has chaired architecture committees, managed roadmaps, mentored engineers, and run on-call and high-load operations for global platforms. Nelson pairs deep protocol-level expertise with practical production experience, and outside of work he has volunteered locally on community food recovery efforts.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese