Tiago Costa
Engineering Team Lead at FARFETCH
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolTiago Costa is an experienced engineering leader with 10 years building and guiding backend teams across e-commerce and data platforms, currently leading a squad at FARFETCH's R&D cluster. He specializes in Microsoft stacks (C#, .NET Core) and microservices, with hands-on experience in identity, payments, reverse logistics and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ and Cassandra. Tiago combines squad-level management with deep technical ownership—from designing resilient distributed services to mentoring engineers for delivery at scale. His background includes full-stack beginnings in Python/Django and mobile interfaces, giving him practical empathy for cross-functional delivery. Based in Porto, he brings a steady blend of operational rigor and pragmatic engineering, often moving between hands-on coding and strategic team leadership.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura de Engenharia Informática, Engenharia Informática, Licenciatura de Engenharia Informática, Engenharia Informática at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (32)
django10
login-system9
cms9
authentication9
voting9
python9
django-project9
openid-connect9
two-factor-authentication9
flexibility9
user-experience9
wagtail8
xadmin8
webauthn8
saml8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tiagofmc/wagtail-modeltranslation
Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
djangowagtailsimple-apppanelsmixin
infoportugal/wagtail-modeltranslation
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Simple app to patch modeltranslation (https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation) into Wagtail CMS.
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
cmspatchpythonwagtail-cmsdjango
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