Nuno Pato
Co-Founder & CEO at Nhost
Vila Franca do Campo, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNuno Pato is a founder and engineering leader with 10 years of hands-on experience building developer-first cloud services, currently serving as Co-Founder & CEO of Nhost. He architected and shipped core features for Nhost’s open-source Firebase alternative, contributing full-stack Nuxt.js templates and robust GraphQL client fixes that improve HTTPS/WSS and subdomain deployments. Previously Co-Founder & CTO, he blends product direction with deep implementation skills across auth, session management and backend integrations (notably improving Hasura auth flows and cookie-based sessions). His career spans startups and scale-ups including CloudBees, Codeship and Delivery Hero, where he focused on backend and platform engineering. Based in the Azores, he pairs formal CS training from Instituto Superior Técnico with entrepreneurial grit and a bias for shipping production-ready developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers fixing real-world integration issues over theoretical debates.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Information Systems and Computer Engineering, BSc Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
back-end-development10
typescript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
nuxt10
wpgraphql10
hasura10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
jwt10
graphql10
typescripts10
testing9
expressjs9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nhost/hasura-backend-plus
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
🔑Auth and 📦Storage for Hasura. The quickest way to get Auth and Storage working for your next app based on Hasura.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 13 reviews, 81 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nuno primarily focused on enhancing the authentication and session management aspects of the Hasura backend. They implemented changes to return session data, including JWT tokens and user information, upon successful login and refresh token requests. The user also addressed authentication-related issues such as incorrect password errors and integrated cookie-based session management. Additionally, the user contributed to tests for authentication flows.
hasuraauthenticationdockergraphqlstorage
nhost/nhost
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
The Open Source Firebase Alternative with GraphQL.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:221 reviews, 63 commits, 105 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nuno primarily contributed to building a Nuxt.js template for the Nhost CLI, which involves creating a new project with Nhost. They developed Nuxt.js configuration files, pages, layouts, and components. The user also fixed the GraphQL endpoint to correctly handle both HTTPS and WSS and made adjustments to the Nhost client constructor, which involved adding support for subdomain-based deployments, introducing types for backendUrl, and subdomain.
serverlessfirebase-alternativevuestoragebackend-as-a-service
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