Lead Backend Engineer

• Aug 2023 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

• Aug 2022 - Present

Senior Software Development Engineer

• Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

Senior Software Engineer

• Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

Worked in the maintenance and evolution of Ericsson's MCPTT product (Mission-critical push-to-talk over LTE). The product was built with JEE, using MySql as the main database and deployed onto Glassfish application servers. Worked in the maintenance and evolution of Ericsson's MCPTT product (Mission-critical push-to-talk over LTE). The product was built with JEE, using MySql as the main database and deployed onto Glassfish application servers.

Senior Software Engineer

• Jul 2017 - Mar 2021

Worked on the maintenance and evolution of the main Cloud monitoring component of New Relic. This meant working with the monitoring APIs of AWS, Azure and GCP, collecting and processing inventory and metric data, and defining with the PM the most important dashboards to show customers. This component was built in Java and Kafka, with a small dose of Ruby, and required due to the large amount of data collected required high scalability and performance in the whole system. Worked on the maintenance and evolution of the on-premise Infrastructure monitoring agent, built in Golang, and included working with the build pipeline (Jenkins), customer support and finally the process of opensourcing the component and refactoring of the build pipeline from Jenkins to Github actions. Lastly, worked on many of the infrastructure monitoring modules, like Kafka, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes and many others, all built with Golang. Also worked on the adaptation of these modules from working on-host to working in Kubernetes and Prometheus. Show less

Software Engineer

• Mar 2014 - Jul 2017

Software engineer in a Scrum Team developing the core platform for Scytl electronic management and voting systems, using Java and JEE related technologies. Recently I helped deliver the 2015 General Elections for Spain, which was a resounding success. Software engineer in a Scrum Team developing the core platform for Scytl electronic management and voting systems, using Java and JEE related technologies. Recently I helped deliver the 2015 General Elections for Spain, which was a resounding success.

Team Leader / Senior Software Developer

• Dec 2012 - Mar 2014

I assumed the role of Team Lead doing mainly requirement analysis, work delegation and supervision, coaching and mentoring of a 5 person team, which worked in conjunction with multiple other small teams to deliver the first M2M/IoT platform on the Portuguese market and one of the first at the European level. The platform was built on top of JEE/Java using a variety of tools including RedHat JBoss, PostgreSQL, Maven, ElasticSearch and others. I assumed the role of Team Lead doing mainly requirement analysis, work delegation and supervision, coaching and mentoring of a 5 person team, which worked in conjunction with multiple other small teams to deliver the first M2M/IoT platform on the Portuguese market and one of the first at the European level. The platform was built on top of JEE/Java using a variety of tools including RedHat JBoss, PostgreSQL, Maven, ElasticSearch and others.

Software Developer outsourcing @ PT Inovação

• Oct 2004 - Dec 2012

Have been participating in the development of an M2M platform in a team of 12 people, leading a team of 4 in a specific module regarding the management of mobile connectivity resources. The platform is being developed in Java (JEE, EJB 3) with JBoss 6.0 as the Application Server and PostgreSQL 9.0 as the DB server. The platform is meant to be integrated with the mobile operator B/OSS, and is being developped with the aim of supporting any mobile operator For a few years, worked as a Software Developer in the Health/Telemedicine area, building applications to provide remote diagnostics of medical examinations. The applications were built on top of .NET Framework with C# as development language and consisting of Windows Forms, Web Services and using the DICOM standard for dealing with the examinations. Before starting int he Java ecosystem i worked as the main developer building a project named TeleAula. It consisted of a videoconferencing application designed to provide communication between students (that were unable to attend classes in-person) and the school. The project started as MFC/C++ application on top of Microsoft Netmeeting. The second version was a technology and UI upgrade (and also feature addition) to NET. Framework, WPF for the UI, web services, and Emblaze-VCON teleconferencing solution. Show less