Software Engineer Porto, Portugal

I'm a backend engineer who gets things done — across the whole stack.

Currently building a crypto exchange at NBX, where I own the frontend too. Before that: Beyond Pricing, Talkdesk, NDrive — and a hosting company I founded and sold.

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André standing by the Douro with the Luís I bridge behind him — Porto · Ponte Luís IBased here, working with teams everywhere

About

Where I've built things

NBXSenior Software Engineer · 2021 – now
Beyond PricingSoftware Engineer · 2019 – 2020
TalkdeskSoftware Engineer · 2017 – 2019
NDriveSoftware Engineer · 2015 – 2017
PTWebtechFounder · Web hosting & development · sold
Google · IEEEStudent Ambassador · Volunteer

Skills

Backend at the core, comfortable everywhere

10+ years shipping real products — the last five in crypto and fintech, owning features end to end, from API design and data modelling to mobile-first UIs.

Shipped

Apple Pay, soloLed the full-stack integration at NBX — Swift, VISA coordination, compliance and UI, with no PM or designer.
20+ TB of PostgresBuilt a data backfill framework and upgraded Django 1 → 3 without downtime at Beyond Pricing.
Zero manual QAAutomated the NBX mobile release pipeline end to end with Maestro.
Zero-downtime migrationMoved every NDrive microservice to Docker in production, with Ansible covering all infrastructure.

Backend & Data

Core

Backend since 2015 — streaming pipelines, event-driven systems and Postgres databases measured in terabytes.

Django
FastAPI
Node.js
Kafka
RabbitMQ
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
MongoDB
Redis
Elasticsearch

Languages

Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Rust
Go
Ruby
Elixir
Scala
Swift

Infrastructure

GCP
AWS
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Datadog
CI/CD

Frontend

React
Svelte
Vue.js
Micro frontends
TanStack Query
Testing Library
Capacitor

Practices

Event-driven architecture
Microservices
Domain-driven design
API design
TDD
Observability

Talks & videos

On stage and on camera

Os informáticos não são nerds TEDxFeira

Tooling for updating large tables in Postgres Porto Codes

Dapper, a large-scale distributed systems tracing infrastructure Papers We Love Porto

O embaixador da Google em Portugal FEUP

Side projects

Things I do for fun

André at a cowork table set up with an AeroPress, grinder and cups

Specialty Coffee I help people set up their specialty coffee setup — for free.

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Claudete My AI assistant that handles invoices, emails and scheduling.

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Life motto

Don't be a crab.
Lift others up.

Drawing of a crab on top of a rock reaching down to pull another crab up