Paulo Lopes

Paulo Lopes is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he has worked since June 2015 until April 2023. In this role, he was responsible for significant projects including Eclipse Vert.x, a toolkit for building reactive applications on the JVM, and contributed to frameworks like Quarkus. His expertise lies in Java high-performance applications and he has been actively involved in the W3C WebAuthn Working Group, leading implementations related to web authentication and passkeys for Vert.x .1

Career Highlights

• Spotify: Currently a Senior Security Engineer since May 2023.
• Red Hat: Principal Software Engineer (June 2015 - April 2023).
• GlobalOrange: Software Architect (April 2013 - June 2015).
• Rough Cookie: Senior Server Developer (October 2011 - March 2013).
• TomTom: Senior Software Developer (September 2007 - October 2011).

Education

Paulo holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Universidade de Coimbra and has participated in various professional development courses, including topics on Test Driven Development and MySQL Performance Tuning .1

Contributions and Interests

He is recognized as a core committer for Vert.x and is an advocate for open-source technologies. Paulo also engages with the developer community through podcasts and discussions about the impact of open-source software .2

In addition to his technical skills, he has a background in game development, having worked on multiplayer game platforms during his early career .1