Simon Esposito
Software Engineer at Heroic Labs
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolSimon Esposito is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Lisbon, who specializes in backend systems across Ruby, Elixir, and currently Golang. At Heroic Labs he contributes to Nakama, a well-known distributed server for realtime and social games, focusing on performance, storage engine indexing, and robust authentication fixes. His background includes roles at Talkdesk and Visible Alpha and research work on an EU-funded identity project during his time at Instituto Superior Técnico. Trained in telecommunications engineering (BSc and MSc), he combines protocol-level understanding with practical backend engineering to improve reliability and scale. An attention to code health and dependency management is a recurring theme in his open-source and professional contributions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (6)
go10
postgresql10
database-design8
architectures7
architecture7
caching7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
heroiclabs/nakama
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 143 commits, 424 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the backend of the Nakama server. Their work involved addressing lint warnings, resolving transitive dependency issues, and implementing critical changes such as handling invalid Google authentication tokens. They also worked on database-related tasks, including performance enhancements and index optimizations for the storage engine. The user also refactored and expanded the IAP functionality within the codebase.
realtimegamechat-servergame-frameworkbackend-as-a-service
heroiclabs/nakama-common
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The runtime framework for Nakama server.
Contributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 107 commits in 2 years 6 months
apiprotocol-buffersruntimeframeworknakama-server
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