Paulo Alves
Engineering Manager at Plex, Inc.
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Alves is an Engineering Manager based in Lisbon with 12 years of experience building and leading web engineering teams at Plex, where he progressed from contractor to senior engineer and now manages engineering delivery. He combines full‑stack development chops—contributing to projects like the Plex Media Player and handling platform-specific build fixes—with hands-on leadership in product-facing web applications. Comfortable across front-end SPA architectures, TDD workflows and API design, he has a track record of choosing technologies and shaping UX while collaborating closely with backend teams. An occasional musician and writer, he brings creative curiosity to technical problem solving and a pragmatic focus on maintainability and cross-platform compatibility.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree New Technologies of Communication, Licentiate degree New Technologies of Communication at Universidade de Aveiro
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (4)
dependency-management10
cmake9
versioning8
macos7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
plexinc/plex-media-player
Dec 2017 - May 2020
Next generation Plex Desktop/Embedded Client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:239 commits, 2 PRs, 258 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paulo primarily focused on updating and bumping web client and TV2 versions within the Plex Media Player project. Their work involved modifying configuration files to integrate newer versions of the web client, as well as adjusting the project's versioning. Additionally, they modified files to include fixes for macOS build failures, suggesting debugging and platform-specific adaptation. Their contributions focused on maintaining and updating dependencies and aligning different components within the Plex Media Player ecosystem.
next-generationelectronplexdesktopembedded
pcalves/dotfiles_deprecated
Sep 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:28 pushes in 8 years 8 months
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