Pedro Ferreira
Head Of Conferencing Technology At CERN (IT-CA-CTE)
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPedro Ferreira is a Senior Software Engineer and long-time CERN technologist with 16+ years building and leading web and collaboration platforms, notably as Lead Developer and Product Manager of Indico, a widely used open-source event management system born at CERN. He blends hands-on Python back-end and JavaScript front-end work with DevOps, code review and product stewardship, having progressed from a technical student to head of conferencing technology. His background in software architectures, agile methods and early interests in machine learning and robotics informs pragmatic, scalable designs for research-focused communities. Based in Geneva, he’s known for quickly mastering new domains and quietly fixing the thorny issues—timezone bugs, session management and database edge cases—that keep large collaborative systems reliable.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics Engineering and Computing, Master's degree, Informatics Engineering and Computing at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoPhysics Computing, Data Storage, Grid Computing, Physics Computing, Data Storage, Grid Computing at CERN School of Computing
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian
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Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
indico/indico
Jul 2009 - Nov 2021
Indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN, the place where the Web was born.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 69 reviews, 3255 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including fixing timezone-related bugs and fixing bugs that arose after renaming. They implemented changes in core components like timetable controllers and data structures, addressing both date/time and code renaming issues. Their contributions also involved database interactions and improvements to the session management features.
management-systemevent-management-systemeventspythoncern
indico/indico-cloud-images
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 1 year
gcpcloud-deploymentdeploymentcloudaws
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