Pedro Pontes
Senior Software Engineer at ESL FACEIT Group - EFG
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Pontes is a senior software engineer and architect with over a decade of experience designing and operating high-scale, resilient distributed systems for fintech, e‑commerce and banking. He has led cross-border teams and shipped critical payment orchestration and authentication platforms—running active‑active Go microservices on multi‑cloud Kubernetes clusters with strict SLAs for major UK banks and a NYSE‑listed retailer. A hands‑on leader who moved from IC roles to technical team lead positions, he combines pragmatic engineering (clean code and design patterns) with rigorous testing practices such as chaos and load testing. Based in Braga, Portugal, he also brings a long-standing interest in AI and software engineering research, and has contributed to open-source tooling around token exchange and authentication.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Informatics and Computing Engineering - Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Informatics and Computing Engineering - Computer Software Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoErasmus Student Computer Software Engineering, Erasmus Student Computer Software Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (31)
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umbraco7
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rest-api6
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docker-container6
dotnet-core6
asp-net-core6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pmpontes/OCR-Medical-Records
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:58 commits, 1 push in 4 months
pmpontes/DominUp-Graphical-Interface
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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