Pedro Santos
Principal Software Engineer at Talkdesk
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Santos is a Principal Software Engineer based in Lisbon with 18 years of professional experience and over a decade focused on Java. He currently leads architecture and delivery at Talkdesk, where he progressed from senior to principal engineer, applying pragmatic solutions to non-trivial distributed systems problems. His background includes long-term stewardship of the fenix-edu open-source academic administration platform at Instituto Superior Técnico, blending hands-on development with architectural leadership for complex institutional software. Pedro combines an academic foundation in software engineering and AI with a research-oriented mindset from early work on adaptive workflow systems, making him adept at translating novel ideas into production-ready solutions. Colleagues describe him as challenge-driven and consistently curious about emerging practices that make software development leaner and more robust.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Software Engineering Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Engineer's degree Software Engineering Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
java10
adobe-experience-manager10
nodejs10
domain-model10
react10
system-information10
persistence9
kebab-case9
realms9
crossword8
ansible-collections8
learning-management-system8
abaqus8
revit-api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ist-dsi/bennu-vaadin
Sep 2010 - Apr 2013
Contributions:268 commits in 2 years 7 months
ist-dsi/themes
Apr 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year
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