Summary
Paulo Chaves is a seasoned software engineer based in Helsinki with 14 years of hands-on experience building backend systems in Python and PHP and frontend features in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. He has deep expertise in GIS and geoprocessing stacks—GeoDjango, GDAL, PostGIS and PgRouting—built into production platforms selling satellite imagery and government portals. Comfortable across the full delivery lifecycle, he blends backend API design, DevOps with Docker and AWS, and performance tuning (Gunicorn/Nginx, MySQL/Postgres optimizations). His career spans startups and enterprise security at F-Secure, with a knack for automating scraping, data-mining pipelines and async services using Celery and asyncio. Notably, he started web development as a hobby in 2002 and moved into professional Python work by 2004, giving him decades of practical, evolving perspective on web and geospatial systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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English