Summary
Tiago Lopes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portugal with 10 years of experience building reliable Java back-end systems for IoT, contact center, ERP and FinTech domains. He currently contributes to HiveMQ’s Tooling & Extensions team, creating integrations that expand MQTT use cases, and has recent experience with Quarkus, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Azure IoT Hub. Past roles at Bosch, Talkdesk and Critical Software show a blend of hands-on API and data-layer work plus early-career leadership in DevOps and company-wide CI/CD adoption. He gravitates toward pragmatic, production-focused engineering that emphasizes robustness and observability across distributed systems. A background spanning railways to autonomous lawn mowers highlights his ability to apply core backend principles across diverse, real-world domains.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Informatics Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
Information Technology, Information Technology at Technical University of Lodz