Tiago Tristao
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at TORTUS
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTiago Tristao is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of experience building scalable frontend, backend and infrastructure systems across e-commerce, fintech and media. He blends low-level implementation chops with systems design, having led initiatives to optimise cloud costs, speed up testing environments and improve developer workflows. At Thought Machine he drove JavaScript/TypeScript build tooling and led the internal JS Build Working Group, contributing upstream to the popular Please build system to enhance test and output handling. Comfortable across Go, TypeScript, React, Python and Kubernetes, he repeatedly targets incremental scalability improvements rather than complete rewrites. His background in electronic and communication engineering underpins a pragmatic, performance-minded approach to system design and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Laura Ayres High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic and Communication Engineering, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronic and Communication Engineering, First Class Honours at The University of York, York, England
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (7)
build-tools10
build-system10
go10
testing10
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thought-machine/please
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:250 reviews, 59 commits, 105 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tiago contributed to fixing issues in the build system related to coverage and test configurations, specifically addressing problems with Istanbul's line coverage reporting and adding TypeScript-related extensions. They also implemented enhancements to the build process's output handling, including a new output grouping option for `plz run parallel` and an override mechanism for running commands via the `--cmd` flag. The user's work demonstrates a focus on build system functionality, error resolution, and improved output presentation.
buckmonorepobazelmulti-languagebuilds
thought-machine/please-vscode
May 2021 - Aug 2022
VSCode plugin for Please
Contributions:4 releases, 15 reviews, 73 commits in 1 year 3 months
vscodevscode-extensionvscode-plugin
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