Francisco Castanho

Francisco Castanho has a diverse range of experience in software engineering roles. Francisco'smost recent position was as a Software Engineer at Onfido, where they contributed to the introduction and improvement of new reports and integrations. Francisco also helped architect new features and improvements on how reports were processed across different services. Prior to that, they worked at Beyond as a Software Engineer, focusing on the development and maintenance of integrations and new product features. Francisco optimized the process of syncing information for several integrations and introduced better tooling to identify and optimize features with performance issues. Before that, they were a Software Engineer at Talkdesk, where they acted as a maintainer of integrations and developed new ones. Francisco played a key role in implementing features to help the company achieve GDPR compliance and transition features from a monolith to micro-services. Earlier in their career, they worked at Jumia Porto Tech Center as a Software Engineer responsible for a logistics management system split into multiple micro-services. Francisco implemented and maintained new features to ensure correct logistic operations for different flows and developed a solution to reduce load by splitting clients across multiple databases. Francisco also has experience as a Systems Analyst at Retail Consult.

Francisco Castanho completed a Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, starting in 2007 and finishing in 2012. Francisco then pursued a Master's degree in the same field at the same institution, starting in 2013 and completing it in 2015.

In terms of additional certifications, Francisco obtained the following:

- In 2019, they completed the course "Build a Backend REST API with Python & Django - Advanced" from Udemy.

- In 2022, they obtained the certification for "Responsive Web Design Essentials - HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap" from Udemy.

- In 2022, they also completed the course "Deno: The Complete Guide Zero to Mastery" from Udemy.

- In 2023, they obtained the certifications for "Tailwind CSS From Scratch | Learn By Building Projects" and "React Node Stripe MongoDB (MERN) Subscription App" from Udemy.

- Francisco also enrolled in several other Udemy courses, including "Gradle Foundations: A Crash Course to Gradle," "Java Maven :101 Stop Building Java Programs the Hard Way!," "Java Maven :102 The Truth About Building Java Programs," "Learn Test Driven Development in Java," "Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud," and "Spring Core - Learn Spring Framework 4 and Spring Boot." However, the exact completion dates for these courses are not provided.