Tiago Barbosa is an engineering manager with nine years of hands-on experience building developer-facing platforms and leading global technical teams, currently at PagerDuty in Lisbon. He blends deep cloud and DevOps expertise from roles at AWS and Microsoft with a strong talent for developer advocacy and customer education, having designed trainings and workshops that increased platform adoption. Tiago is an active open-source contributor, notably improving PagerDuty integration within the popular Backstage developer portal, reflecting his focus on practical developer experience. He excels at translating complex technical and business needs into actionable roadmaps, driving process improvements and engineering best practices. Known for motivating cross-functional teams, he pairs people-first leadership with a background in C#, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript and React. Outside work he balances engineering with family life and surfing, bringing curiosity and resilience to product and platform challenges.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree in Computer Engineering Computation & Intelligent Systems, Master degree in Computer Engineering Computation & Intelligent Systems at Universidade da Beira Interior
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tiago Barbosa's contributions primarily focus on the `pagerduty` plugin within the Backstage framework. His work includes refactoring example applications to utilize the new package, deprecating and migrating existing cards and types to a new plugin, and fixing character escaping issues in the API report. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of the Backstage plugin ecosystem and integration of third-party services. Additionally, he also worked on merging branches and resolving description conflicts in the azure-devops backend.
Contributions:13 releases, 19 reviews, 138 PRs in 11 months
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