Pedro Rijo
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Hofy
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Rijo is a Senior Fullstack Engineer based in Lisbon with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms across startups and enterprises, currently enabling distributed hiring at Hofy. He blends strong backend craftsmanship with fullstack delivery, having driven features and optimizations at companies like Onfido, TripAdvisor, Feedzai and Codacy. Pedro contributes to notable open-source infrastructure—he helped refactor the git-scm.com website’s download and blog systems, improving resource formats and build-read performance—showing attention to developer experience and tooling. A former researcher and lecturer from Instituto Superior Técnico with an MSc in Computer Science, he pairs rigorous academic grounding with practical product delivery. Colleagues describe him as a morning person who consistently ships thoughtful, reliable solutions across the stack.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 15/20, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 15/20 at Instituto Superior Técnico
English
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Github Skills (17)
ruby10
json9
github9
scala9
yaml9
playframework9
html8
javascript8
css7
two-factor-authentication6
bitbucket6
sbt6
java6
codacy6
git6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
git/git-scm.com
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
The git-scm.com website. Note that this repository is only for the website; issues with git itself should go to https://git-scm.com/community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 232 commits, 262 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily contributed to the git-scm.com website by refactoring the download and blog sections. They extracted and formatted GUI client information into a JSON resource, then replaced it with a YAML file, and optimized its reading process. Further contributions include adding Windows version information on the download monitor and modifying the page layout and links. The user also made updates related to external resources.
git-scmscm
qamine-test/rep-updater-test
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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