TiagoĀ Mota
Senior Software Engineer (Platform Team)
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolTiago Mota is a Senior Software Engineer based in Porto with 11 years of experience transitioning from Android apps to backend platform engineering. He currently focuses on Scala and the Typelevel stack, driving internal tooling, CI/CD automation, and performance/R&D initiatives at SwissBorg. His background includes shaping core product backends and cloud deployments at Triggerise and earlier hands-on Android work for Jumia Travel, giving him a practical full-stack perspective. Known for tackling non-functional challenges, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to evolve platform reliability and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Informatics and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Informatics and Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoTU Delft
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (17)
akka-persistence10
homebrew10
event-sourcing9
scala9
envelope8
postgresql8
pekko7
projection6
protobuf5
protocol-buffers4
cqrs4
android-database4
grpc4
recyclerview3
database3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SwissBorg/pekko-persistence-postgres
Feb 2024 - Apr 2026
PostgreSQL plugin for Pekko Persistence
Contributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 50 PRs in 2 years 2 months
pekkopostgresql
TiagoMota/wedding
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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