Tiago Ribeiro
Engineering Fellow at Uphold Inc.
Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolTiago Ribeiro is an engineering fellow and former CTO with 14 years of experience building and scaling financial technology at Uphold and founding Seegno. He excels at designing complex, reliable systems from the ground up, bridging R&D prototyping with production platforms and growing engineering teams into technical leaders. A hands-on backend developer and active open-source contributor, he has improved robustness in widely used projects like the Sequelize ORM, reflecting deep expertise in databases and server-side engineering. Based in Braga, Portugal, he pairs strategic product thinking with practical engineering discipline and a knack for simplifying intricate architectures. Outside work he pursues creative precision as a classical guitarist and photographer, a hint at the aesthetic rigor he brings to system design.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
sequel10
javascript10
orm10
sequelizejs10
postgresql9
databases8
testing8
database8
sql7
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sequelize/sequelize
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 43 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily contributes to the Sequelize ORM by addressing bug fixes, and enhancing the codebase. Their work includes adding unique key checks for PostgreSQL, fixing method names in documentation, and implementing validation logic based on attribute types. Furthermore, the user added an order keywords whitelist and fixed error stack traces within the library's error handling mechanisms. These contributions show a focus on improving database interaction and the overall robustness of the ORM.
feature-richormsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversequelize
seegno-forks/json-mask
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
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