Pedro Almeida
Software Engineer II - KYC at Klarna
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Almeida is a Software Engineer II at Klarna with nine years of experience building reliable ID&V and payment systems to support market and payment-method expansion. With a master's in Computer Science and Engineering and a semester at TU Dresden, he blends strong computer-science fundamentals with pragmatic, end-to-end engineering—from development and testing to automation and production monitoring. At Klarna he shifted from payment methods to KYC, focusing on robust user verification services that power compliance and product growth. He contributes to open-source tooling as a backend developer (notably improving data handling and site-rank features in the widely used sherlock project), showing attention to data quality and command-line ergonomics. Colleagues know him as technology-agnostic, curious, and collaborative—someone who breaks problems to first principles and values cross-functional alignment to deliver real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Semester of Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Semester of Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Technische Universität DresdenMaster's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
English, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (14)
command-line-interface10
osi10
python10
information-gathering10
cli10
command-line10
python-requests9
http-request9
beautifulsoup9
json8
argparse8
linux7
cybersecurity6
r6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sherlock-project/sherlock
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 18 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `site_list.py` module within the Sherlock project. Their contributions included adding features to sort and update website ranks using Alexa.com data, as well as improving the module's output. The user also incorporated command-line arguments to control the site rank update process. These changes aimed to improve the data management and information gathering capabilities of the tool.
pythonosintclihuntpython3
ptalmeida/awesome-EOS
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
A curated list of awesome EOS resources and projects
Contributions:44 commits, 7 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year
eos-resourceseoseosioblockchain
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