Thiago Souza
Software Engineer at Squid AI
Sintra, Portugal
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Top SchoolThiago Souza is a pragmatic software engineer based in Sintra, Portugal, with 11 years of professional experience and a 15+-year track record designing fault-tolerant, scalable systems. He has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles across startups and established vendors—most recently at Squid AI and previously as Lead Software Engineer at Zero Hash—bringing deep expertise in backend architectures and integration. At Elastic he combined customer-facing support, developer advocacy and infrastructure automation, demonstrating an ability to translate real-world operational needs into resilient tooling. His background as a software architect and full-stack developer informs a balanced approach: pragmatic code design that anticipates scale and failure modes. Comfortable picking up new technologies quickly, he thrives on technical challenge and driving innovation in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Centro Universitário da Cidade
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
highlight10
heartbeat10
highlighting10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
streaming10
javascript10
client-library10
packetbeat10
logstash10
rest10
jruby10
search-engine10
observability10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
tsouza/nginx-php-fpm
Feb 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
tsouza/pyngboard
Jun 2016 - Jul 2018
Python library for accessing Pingboard resources.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years
python-librarypythonospfgeventpython3
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