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 (25)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codemonkeybr/skip
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
codemonkeybr/softarc
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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