Pedro Vilaça
Team Lead Engineering at XING
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Vilaça is a seasoned technology leader and backend engineer with over 11 years delivering scalable web applications. Currently Team Lead Engineering at XING (since 2018), he guides cross-functional teams and aligns engineering with business outcomes. He specializes in distributed, highly available systems, with hands-on expertise in Java and Ruby, Spring Framework, Rails, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and Google Cloud, plus Terraform and Docker for infrastructure as code and containerization. His track record spans architecture, stakeholder management, and product collaboration across roles at clipkit GmbH and Blip.pt, emphasizing reliability, performance monitoring, and scalable architectures. Early in his career he drove middleware architecture and CI/CD improvements, including Maven adoption and migration to WebLogic/WebSphere. Based in Porto, Portugal, he combines engineering excellence with leadership, coaching, and people development to build high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MsC, Network Engineering and Information Systems, MsC, Network Engineering and Information Systems at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Github Skills (94)
spring-security10
terraform10
security10
graph10
java10
spring-boot10
spring10
springframework10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
terraform-module9
infrastructure9
hcl9
aws9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pmvilaca/spring-security
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 25 days
spring-bootsecurityspringjavaspring-security
pmvilaca/nginx-reverse-proxy-cookbook
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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