Sandro Costa
Senior Continuous Engineer at Salsify
Leiria, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolSandro Costa is a Senior Continuous Engineer with 8 years of professional experience and a long track record building multimedia platforms, UX-focused web apps, and training developer teams. Comfortable across HTML/JS, MongoDB, Ruby and Python/Django, he blends full‑stack engineering with multimedia and course content creation—skills honed over roles at Salsify, FCT and a dozen years teaching and designing at Instituto Politécnico de Leiria. He holds advanced studies including ongoing PhD work in Web Science and a master's in Computer Engineering, which inform a research-minded approach to practical product delivery. Known for collaborative problem-solving and unconventional solutions, Sandro also brings experience as a WordPress developer, trainer and part‑time stand-up comedian—an unusual combo that makes him an effective communicator and creative thinker. Based in Leiria, Portugal, he pairs academic depth with hands-on implementation to ship usable, user-centered systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura Comunicação e Multimédia, Licenciatura Comunicação e Multimédia at Polytechnic of LeiriaMestrado em Engenharia Informática, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática at University of ÉvoraDoutoramento (PhD) Ciência e Tecnologia Web, Doutoramento (PhD) Ciência e Tecnologia Web at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (31)
moodle10
catalog10
django10
lms10
openedx9
cms9
factory8
content-type7
frontend6
docker6
python6
h5p6
before-after5
authentication5
image4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sandroscosta/richie
Jul 2021 - Jun 2025
:pencil: A CMS for Open Education to build learning portals
Contributions:154 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years 11 months
cmsportalspencilltsopen-education
fccn/brand-nau
Mar 2024 - Dec 2025
The NAU branding of Open edX
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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