Tesso Costa
Senior Software Engineer at Skip
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTesso Costa is a Senior Software Engineer and tech manager with 12 years of experience building scalable Java microservices and leading Agile teams from Calgary, Canada. He combines hands-on backend expertise—clean code, SOLID, TDD—with strategic architectural decision-making and CI/CD/DevOps optimization. At Skip and SkipTheDishes he drove measurable improvements in performance, monitoring, and deployment velocity while bridging product and engineering through Kanban and Scrum. He’s comfortable in cloud-native stacks (AWS, Terraform) and has a track record of shipping automation and observability tools that reduced downtime and manual effort. A founder of a regional hackerspace, he brings a maker’s curiosity and mentorship mindset to cultivate innovation and developer growth. Outside work he’s a “coder for life,” balancing engineering discipline with practical creativity as a husband and father.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Degree in Internet Technology and Computer Networks, Software Development, Degree in Internet Technology and Computer Networks, Software Development at Unitri - Centro Universitário do Triângulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (33)
python9
raspberry-pi8
iot8
asyncio7
mqtt7
home-automation7
internet-of-things6
maintenance-mode5
java5
repeater4
lora3
home-assistant-integration3
trend3
lorawan2
mesh2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codemonkeybr/skip
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
codemonkeybr/meshcore-pi-companion
Mar 2026 - May 2026
A remote client for MeshCore radios with packet capture, store-and-decrypt, bots, MQTT, and more!
Contributions:14 PRs, 38 pushes, 20 branches in 2 months
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