Paulo Pinheiro
Engineering Manager - App Developer Experience at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPaulo Pinheiro is an engineering manager based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building and scaling mobile and platform teams, currently leading App Developer Experience at Booking.com. He combines hands-on Android and backend development roots with senior people-management skills, organizational design know-how, and a track record of nurturing talent from ICs to managers. At Booking he has progressed through technical and leadership roles—from Android developer to multi-team platform lead and senior manager—demonstrating an ability to drive change in large, fast-moving engineering organisations. A pragmatic strategic thinker, he also contributes to notable open-source work such as adding Kotlin code generation to Google's widely used FlatBuffers project, reflecting a continued technical curiosity alongside leadership.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Computer Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Universidade Estadual do Ceará
Portuguese, English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
kotlin10
data-serialization10
code-generation10
flatbuffers10
serialization10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
cross-platform5
dotnet-core4
csharp4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/flatbuffers
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 38 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Paulo implemented and added support for generating Kotlin classes within the FlatBuffers serialization library. The primary focus was on creating a Kotlin generator similar to the existing Java generator to maintain simplicity, leveraging the existing Java runtime. The work involved adding code generation, documentation, and modifications to the generated code, including support for experimental Unsigned types and optional indentation. This contribution enhanced the library's capabilities by providing Kotlin language support.
rpcmemorypythonmarshallingprotobuf
paulovap/flatbuffers
Jun 2019 - Jan 2025
FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Contributions:281 pushes, 52 branches in 5 years 8 months
memoryserializationflatbuffersserialization-libraryserializer
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