Simão Freitas
Software Engineer at Hive
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSimão Freitas is a seasoned software engineer and leader with 13 years of experience building full‑stack systems and growing engineering teams across startups and scale‑ups. He has led product and platform efforts from billing systems and GraphQL adoption to ERP integrations and B2B portals, combining hands‑on Rails/React development with architecture and operational ownership. As a founder and former CTO he scaled a learning platform that served 1,500+ students and generated over $3M for instructors, and later ran engineering organizations responsible for internal tooling and customer‑facing apps. Comfortable switching between IC and management roles, he focuses on engineering culture, performance coaching, hiring, and reliable systems at scale. Now based in Berlin, he continues to blend entrepreneurial grit with practical delivery—often stepping into code to unblock teams and ship high‑impact work. An early maker (music magazine and festival community founder) he brings product curiosity and community-building experience that informs his technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (unfinished) Systems Engineering, MSc (unfinished) Systems Engineering at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (128)
relay10
graphql-ruby10
rails10
graphql10
whisper9
api-client9
ruby9
recorder9
css9
dall-e9
cli8
api8
command-line-tool8
ruby-client8
react-charts8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
simaofreitas/edx-mitx-6.00
Oct 2012 - Dec 2018
My exercises from EDX's MITX 6.00 lectures in Python
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 2 months
mitxedxpython
simaofreitas/elixir_in_action_exs
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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