Pedro Romano
University Teacher - Assistant Professor at AppX
Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Romano is an experienced software leader and educator with 11 years building digital products and teaching programming and innovation at ISCTE-IUL. As Partner & Head of Operations at AppX he combines hands-on delivery of scalable web and mobile solutions with client-facing product strategy. He teaches object-oriented programming and digital project development while pursuing a PhD in Information Science and Technology, bridging academic research in AI/ML with practical engineering. His early career included full-stack work—Rails backends and native Android/iOS apps—and contribution to the popular Exercism JavaScript track, where he improved exercise test suites and quality assurance. Based in Lisbon, he blends entrepreneurship, teaching, and code-level rigor to turn concepts into production-ready products.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Science and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Science and Technology at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, French
Stackoverflow
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mongodb
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python
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
test-driven-design10
python10
testing10
ubuntu10
jestjs10
unicode9
ansible9
mongodb9
csv9
tracks9
pip9
macos6
pymssql6
pymongo6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/javascript
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Exercism exercises in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily contributed by adding and modifying tests within the Exercism JavaScript track. Their work included writing tests for new exercises, such as those for `concat` functionality and the simple-cipher exercise, ensuring messages longer than the key could be encoded and decoded. Furthermore, the user added tests and updated an exercise related to gigaseconds to prevent the mutation of the input. Additionally, the user worked on updating the package.json file with versioning and sync.
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paparomeo/jsonapi-store-relationaldb
Sep 2017 - May 2021
A relational database handler for jsonapi-server
Contributions:28 pushes, 31 branches in 3 years 8 months
jsonapirelationalrelational-databasedatabasejsonapi-server
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