Tiago Costa
Engineering Team Lead at FARFETCH
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolTiago Costa is an experienced engineering leader with 10 years building and guiding backend teams across e-commerce and data platforms, currently leading a squad at FARFETCH's R&D cluster. He specializes in Microsoft stacks (C#, .NET Core) and microservices, with hands-on experience in identity, payments, reverse logistics and event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ and Cassandra. Tiago combines squad-level management with deep technical ownership—from designing resilient distributed services to mentoring engineers for delivery at scale. His background includes full-stack beginnings in Python/Django and mobile interfaces, giving him practical empathy for cross-functional delivery. Based in Porto, he brings a steady blend of operational rigor and pragmatic engineering, often moving between hands-on coding and strategic team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura de Engenharia Informática, Engenharia Informática, Licenciatura de Engenharia Informática, Engenharia Informática at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (22)
django10
cms9
authentication9
python9
openid-connect9
two-factor-authentication9
wagtail9
webauthn8
saml7
recommender6
allauth6
react6
matrix-factorization6
django-allauth6
content-management-system6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tiagofmc/wagtail-modeltranslation
Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
djangowagtailsimple-apppanelsmixin
infoportugal/wagtail-modeltranslation
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Simple app to patch modeltranslation (https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation) into Wagtail CMS.
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
cmsdjangowagtail
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