Marco Neves

Developer/Software Engineer

Over 20 years building systems, from CMSs to monitoring, from self-healing caching systems to distributed cron managers, from message queues to instant messaging.

Almost half of my profissional live happened in booking.com where I started as a Developer in 2010 and where I had the pleasure of working in several high throughput systems and enable a lot of very innovative teams.

AvidMind - June 2023 to Present

Contractor Software Engineer

Contractor Software Engineer, working on software projects as defined by the needs of the clients, including Booking.com. More details on AvidMind’s website - https://avidmind.net.

Flexport - Oct 2021 to May 2023

Staff Software Engineer

Design, coordinate, support and help develop a new system to archive all the revenue and cost documents related with flexport trade operations. This project was started from scratch by my team. My role in the project was design the system architecture, including its integration with other flexport systems, databases used, components/deployable units, etc.

Booking.com - Aug 2010 to Sep 2021

Developer, Senior Developer, Principal Developer

  • 3rd Party Tooling Integration - supported the teams responsible for developing the APIs and data integrations between booking internal systems and external tooling to be used by CS agents.
  • Messaging infrastructure and Inventory/Availability - worked on the backend of both internal systems, the first responsible for millions of messages per day and billions of requests, the second responsible for the availability provided by millions of property to be sold in booking’s website.

Previous Experience

sapo.pt, iol.pt, clix.pt, others - 1998 to 2010

Web/Backend Developer

  • developed websites for sapo.pt and clix.pt, as well as developed, integrated and supported new and pre-existing CMSs for them.
  • Design and co-implement a publishing pipeline for publico.pt.
  • Design and implement an uniform API to enable the configuration of different last-mile network equipment for DSL and Fiber; collect, store and display usage metrics for these last-mile equipments.

Other

  • Part of a team of two sysadmins, managing all the systems of iol.pt. Develop their web analytics platform.
  • Assembling hardware (domestic PCs)
  • Support municipality management software, business management and accounting software.
  • Implement GIS applications.