Pedro Gaudêncio is a Managing Director and full stack web engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web and mobile solutions across Europe and beyond. He leads Ikigau LLC while hands-on developing products using Python, Django/DRF, Node.js, Vue.js and React Native, and shipping serverless and containerized deployments. Pedro pairs methodical engineering with client-facing sales and product ownership, turning complex requirements into pragmatic systems for hospitality, events, and e-commerce. An active open-source contributor, he improved backend features for CERN-origin projects like Invenio and Indico—adding DOI querying, LaTeX/PDF generation and Markdown/MathJax support—demonstrating comfort working in research-grade ecosystems. He prefers practical assessments over traditional interviews, inviting recruiters to evaluate his work through past projects or small paid tasks.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Évora
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily contributed to back-end improvements within the Invenio digital library framework. They fixed file paths, added new features, and addressed code issues. Furthermore, the user worked on database querying with DOI and API integration. The contributions show a focus on improving the framework's functionality and integrating external services.
Indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN, the place where the Web was born.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:12 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pedro focused on enhancing the event management system's backend, implementing LaTeX PDF generation for contributions and abstracts. This included significant code modifications within `conference.py`, `conferenceDisplay.py`, and `conferenceModif.py` to generate PDFs. Further contributions involved integrating Markdown and MathJax into the abstract submission and editing workflows and organizing LaTeX templates.
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