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xhico/README.md

Hey, I'm Francisco 👋

Senior Backend Engineer  ·  Python  ·  Distributed Systems  ·  Data Platforms

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🧭 About me

I'm a Python backend engineer with 10+ years of programming experience and 5+ years building production-grade backend platforms — all in fully remote environments. I lead re-architectures, design data pipelines, and own production infrastructure end-to-end — from architecture decisions to 2 a.m. pager rotations.

  • 🛠️ Currently scaling crawling and data-processing platforms from 100K → 100M+ requests
  • 🌍 Based in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal  ·  WET/WEST (UTC±0/+1)
  • 💼 Open to remote roles across Europe and the UK — full-time or B2B
  • 🛡️ Focus on scalability, reliability, automation, and high-volume data processing
  • 🗣️ Languages: Portuguese (native)  ·  English (C2)
  • 📬 Best way to reach me: xhico.github.io or francgf@gmail.com

🛠️ Stack

Backend & Data

Python Celery Redis PostgreSQL Elasticsearch FastAPI Flask Django

Infrastructure & DevOps

Docker Kubernetes Linux Bash Git GitHub Actions

Web

JavaScript Node.js HTML5 CSS3

Tooling

Claude Code PyCharm JetBrains

“Comfortable owning systems end-to-end — from architecture to deployment, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.”

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    Self-hosted personal finance dashboard for Portuguese bank statements (CA / CGD) and Degiro brokerage data. Auto-classifies every transaction and surfaces income, expenses, cashflow, net worth and …

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  2. xhico.github.io xhico.github.io Public

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    Flask Web Server that monitors Raspberry Pi Stats (CPU, RAM, Storage, Network, etc)

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    Send Alert from FogosPT Api

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