Paulo Bu
Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaulo Bu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale, high-performance distributed systems at companies like Booking.com and Amazon. He specializes in backend engineering—reservations, pricing and tax systems—using Java, Python, Kafka, Cassandra and Hadoop to deliver reliable, low-latency services at scale. A certified Scrum Master who cares about team dynamics, he combines hands-on coding with a focus on functional programming and system design to reduce complexity in large projects. Passionate about open source and continuous learning, he brings a pragmatic obsession for performance optimization and scalability. Based in Amsterdam, he balances deep technical rigor with a curiosity for non-technical product concerns and a taste for extreme sports outside work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Havana
English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch
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Github Skills (96)
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Github contributions (5)
pbu88/.dotfiles
May 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:66 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
pbu88/diffy
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
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Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 121 commits in 4 years 7 months
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