Nuno Sénica
Senior Software Engineer Contract at Booking.com
Leiria, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNuno Sénica is a senior software engineer and engineering leader based in Leiria, Portugal, with two decades of hands-on experience and over a decade in industry roles delivering large-scale backend systems. He has progressed from embedded and telecom research to leading engineering teams at Booking.com and Datadog, blending individual contributor work—architecture, performance, and API design—with people management and stakeholder coordination. Nuno’s technical stack spans Java, Perl, MySQL, GraphQL, gRPC, Protocol Buffers and Kubernetes, and he routinely combines system design with practical performance and deployment improvements. He also contributes to notable open-source projects like Kodi, where his build and release work improved Raspberry Pi support and cross-platform compilation reliability. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions that improve developer velocity and platform robustness, he mentors teams to balance product outcomes with engineering quality. His background in mobility research and a MSc in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering gives him a rare systems-level perspective on networking, performance and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Fast Mobility Mechanisms with QoS Support, MSc in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Fast Mobility Mechanisms with QoS Support at Universidade de Aveiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
c-language10
cmake10
raspberry-pi10
cprogramming-language10
ffmpeg9
debian9
fmt8
rapidjson8
linux7
android5
stereo4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:20 commits, 21 PRs, 59 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nuno's contributions primarily focus on build system and platform-specific configurations. Their work includes modifying CMake scripts to enable Debian package creation for the Raspberry Pi, fixing architecture settings for the Raspberry Pi, and addressing dependencies for internal compilation of RapidJSON and fmt. They also addressed compilation issues related to FFMPEG on the Raspberry Pi. Their work significantly improves the build process and platform support for the Kodi project.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
PIPplware/xbmc
Jan 2017 - May 2019
XBMC Main Repository
Contributions:46 commits, 122 pushes, 156 branches in 2 years 4 months
xbmc
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