João Cardoso
Senior Software Engineer at Netdata, Inc.
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Cardoso is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native SaaS for monitoring, bioinformatics, blockchain, and insurance domains. He specializes in backend systems in Go and Node.js, with deep practical experience across Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, message systems (Pulsar, MQTT, RabbitMQ), and container orchestration on Docker/Kubernetes in AWS and GCP. At Netdata he helps design scalable observability platforms; earlier roles include secure distributed analysis at Lifebit and blockchain-backed web solutions at Applied Blockchain, showing a knack for high-assurance, data-intensive systems. A pragmatic team player and standards advocate, he focuses on high-level design choices while enforcing coding and tooling standards and mentoring peers. Despite a formal technical education at local academies, his GitHub persona “gopher” and steady career path reflect a self-driven engineer who prefers shipping reliable infrastructure over hype.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, IT Specialist Technician - Level 5, Associate's degree, IT Specialist Technician - Level 5 at ATEC AcademyHigh School, IT Technician - Level 4, High School, IT Technician - Level 4 at Ruiz Costa Professional School
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (36)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
docker10
observability10
postgresql10
mysql10
netdata10
machine-learning10
linux10
grafana10
full-stack10
prometheus10
ai10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
car12o/indabox
Jul 2019 - Sep 2025
associates managements system
Contributions:1 PR, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
laravel
car12o/eslint-config-car12o
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
eslint-config by car12o
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
eslint-configconfigeslint
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