Nelson Sousa
Senior Software Engineer at FARFETCH
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Sousa is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact web platforms, currently driving Farfetch’s migration of buy-flow to a GraphQL microservice architecture. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (.NET Core, React, Kubernetes) with pragmatic product thinking, having shipped features that delivered multi-million euro revenue uplift and measurable performance gains. A proactive technical leader and recruiter, he has led the creation of 22 modules, mentored backend and full‑stack engineers, and redesigned interview challenges to hire for role fit. Nelson also coaches teams in agile practices, introduced Kanban to stabilize delivery, and has a track record of turning legacy systems into scalable services. Equally comfortable optimizing SQL/EF performance or implementing GDPR at scale, he pairs curiosity with a pragmatic focus on observability and user impact. Based in Lisbon, he’s known for evangelizing design patterns and for a restless curiosity that fuels both technical depth and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Business Management, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Business Management at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (200)
infinite-scroll10
multithreading10
authentication10
gesture10
react-native-reanimated10
visual-studio10
google-maps10
gh-extension10
vanilla-javascript10
javascript10
animation10
architecture10
dotnet10
clean-architecture10
typescript10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nelsonprsousa/nelsonprsousa
Jul 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
nelsonprsousa/qwik
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Instant-loading web apps, without effort
Contributions:39 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 3 months
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