José Santos
Full Stack Developer at Merkle Portugal
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarJosé Santos is a Lisbon-based full stack developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building web applications and internal tools across startups and agencies. He combines strategic, detail-oriented engineering with a track record of shipping performance-focused back-end improvements—evident in contributions to the Jet template engine where he optimized runtime evaluation and added features like HTML auto-escape and a ternary operator. José has consistently moved between roles that require both front-end and back-end ownership, from early web app development and graphic design to recent full-stack work at PrimeIT, 1000 Farmers and Merkle Portugal. He thrives on solving complex problems and leading projects to completion, balancing technical rigor with a commitment to personal growth and a fulfilling life outside work. Notably, his open-source optimizations reflect a practical focus on measurable performance gains rather than purely theoretical changes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (5)
go10
template-engine10
optimization10
templater9
template-tags9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CloudyKit/jet
Apr 2016 - May 2020
Jet template engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 77 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:José primarily focused on improving the runtime speed of the Jet template engine. Their commits demonstrate efforts to optimize the evaluation process, including changes to the `eval.go` and `eval_test.go` files. These optimizations involve code modifications aimed at enhancing performance. In addition, the user added features like the inclusion of an HTML auto escape and a ternary operator.
template-enginejet-template-enginejetgolang
jhsx/GoJetPlugin
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Go Jet Template Engine - Plugin for Intellij
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
gointellijtemplate-engine
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