PA Leadership Coaching

I help Tech executives and leaders in Engineering and Product upgrade themselves, how they work, serve others, and create value in the world.

Leadership Coach

Inflow

Inflow's mission is to equip people with ADHD with the skills and support they need to reach their full potential.

I coach a number of folks across the org in their leadership development and in expanding their thinking to better cope with the complexity of day to day work.

Resident Leadership Coach

My role as Fractional CTO was focused on helping set Inflow up for success as the company grows: coaching and mentoring talented people, and to setup scalable processes across recruiting, software development process, and continuous improvement.

Fractional CTO

Hotjar

Hotjar is the Product Experience Insights software of choice for small and medium businesses.

I coach a number of engineering, product and UX leaders across the organization to be at their best when their best is needed.

Sharpist

Sharpist is the outcome-driven digital platform for people development that pays in on your KPIs by growing your employees with the power of coaching and personalized learning plans.

VP of Engineering

TourRadar

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for growing and nurturing the Engineering organization, along with its budget planning. Scaling up the company on the back of its series C round.

Doubled the team size within a year, to ~50 engineers, through a systematic, scalable and predictable hiring process, while increasing development and deployment velocity/frequency 3x.

Setting a clear direction and objectives for the team, communicating these effectively, and facilitating collaboration with different stakeholders across departments.

For a period of 4 months, led the Product org in addition to Engineering adopting a more structured, predictable and experimentation-based product development process.

VP of Engineering & Interim VP of Product

HelloFresh

(IPO: Frankfurt Stock Exchange 2017)

Responsible for driving and helping accomplish a long-term technical vision for a number of customer-facing teams. Aligning with the business and product vision of the company, empowering a fantastic and ever-growing group of engineers, and removing impediments to flow.

Heavily involved in engineering hiring, helping teams efficiently onboard new engineers, and coaching engineering managers in growing and nurturing their respective teams and individuals.

Director Of Engineering

Tasked with building a team for supporting and developing internal CRM technology. Being essentially a greenfield space at HelloFresh at the time, it led to the development of a modern event-driven architecture enabling us to tap real-time data fed into our CRM platform.

Engineering Manager

Architecting and develop a new Data Warehousing solution for the growing business. Hadoop, Apache Spark, etc.

Data Engineer

Architecting and developing the payments backend and integration with external payment service providers.

Senior Software Engineer

Sports Interactive

Portuguese localization of the market-leading football management simulation game Football Manager (formerly known as Championship Manager)

Translator

Universidade de Évora

- Backend development and maintenance of the University's Online Information System; 
- Design and implementation of integration mechanisms between the University's Online Information System and its counterpart Financial application;
- Design and implementation of public access APIs to the University's Online Information System, for use by external apps (kiosks, mobile platforms, etc) in different contexts.

Software Developer

LOUD! Magazine

Interviews, feature articles and album reviews for a leading Portuguese widespread metal music magazine.

Writer

InfluAds

Front and backend development of a PHP/Zend Framework based, MySQL/MongoDB driven, web app for use by the Influads network of publishers and advertisers.

Developer

Former VP Eng • Leadership Coach • I help you get in control of your work so it doesn’t control you.

🚀 Coach for tech leaders at all levels looking to step it up, and do well while doing good. If that's you, and you feel like someone who can expand your thinking could be handy, DM me. Let's chat!

🧠 Former engineering executive, manager and software developer, manager. Leadership, management and organizations through the lenses of complexity, systems, and how the brain works.

👹 The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world it’s either people or profit.

Paulo André

Teylor AG

Dedicated to building and leading a high-performing engineering organization. My focus is on fostering a strong engineering culture centered around growth, learning, accountability, and innovation. I work to ensure seamless alignment between engineering, product, and executive teams, driving effective execution of our strategy and roadmaps. This includes contributing to strategy, ensuring alignment, and maintaining clear communication with stakeholders. I am also be responsible for establishing the right KPIs to measure our success and for continuously improving engineering efficiency through optimized processes and tooling.

Director of Engineering

As an Engineering Leadership Coach with 18+ years of experience, I specialize in guiding tech leaders to navigate challenges, build high-performing teams, and achieve work-life balance through people-focused leadership, authenticity and psychological safety.

Engineering Leadership Coach

Contentsquare

Serving as a Senior Director of Engineering for Contentsquare's Digital Experience Analytics Line. My role encompasses leading feature development (Heatmaps, Recordings, etc.), driving a ~$200M ARR business, and actively managing cross-company team integration, strategic initiatives, and technical migrations in the wake of the Hotjar acquisition.

Senior Director of Engineering

Leading Hotjar's engineering department for user-focused feature tribes, encompassing Heatmaps, Recordings, Dashboards, Surveys, Feedback, and Interviews. 
Actively engaged in strategic initiatives, technical migrations, and transformations. 
Today, Hotjar is used on over 900,000 websites in 180+ countries.

Some of my duties include:
- OKR utilisation
- Process optimisations
- Scrum facilitation
- Team support and enablement
- Peer Reviews
- Individual 1on1s

Engineering Team Lead

Maintaining the existing system in AngularJS and native JS as well as contributing towards the rewrite in ES6, React and TypeScript and the long term FE technical vision.

Frontend Developer

Tipico Ltd.

Daily tasks include :
- working in a fully agile environment 
- enabling teams to work together and achieve sprint goals
- analysis and estimation of new tasks
- developing features full stack within the estimated timeframe
- working closely with product management
- communication with offshore development teams
- contributing to other's code via pull requests
- working on a legacy java system (re-factoring, new features, bugs, documenting legacy code)
- development of new mobile hybrid app using Angularjs
- development of Native wrappers for iOS and Android
- fine tuning of our workflow processes in order to avoid bottlenecks and increase efficiency
- automating builds and deployments for mobile client using grunt and Jenkins
- visiting the offshore development teams on a quarterly basis
- contributing towards building the Malta development team
- mentoring new recruits
- knowledge sharing by continuous contribution to the company's wiki
- scripting small tools to reduce local development time
- pair programming
- project planning from small team prototyping to team distribution based on domain

Technologies in use include:
Java 6, Spring, Hibernate, Lombok, MySql, AngularJS, Grunt, SCSS, HTML5, Jira, Stash, Confluence, Jenkins, IntelliJ, Bash, Mac OSX, Git, React, Redux, Typescript, NPM

Senior Software Developer

Yobetit

Tasks related to scrum/agile mentoring:
- maximising use and cutomising workflows for Atlassian products to meet our needs
- analysing and avoiding bottlenecks during sprints
- gathering retro feedback to improve from sprint to sprint
- adapting an easy knowledge sharing environment
- introduction of pull-request workflow to increase code quality

Taks related to development:
- development of new features and infrastructures
- reviewing code for peers
- analyzing/refactoring tasks for optimal implementation without compromising performance and code cleanliness
- suggesting alternative technologies to implement new infrastructures
- unit testing
- front end ui implementation
- adapting to changing needs and requirements

Daily technologies include:
- Java 7
- AOP via Spring and AspectJ
- EDA using ActiveMQ as our main queue
- Jquery Datatables manipulation for front end views
- MongoDB as a secondary historical database
- Spring Core, Data, MVC, Security, Schedulers via xml and annotation driven configuration
- Git with Stash and later on with BitBucket both used in a pull-request workflow
- Linux and bash
- Atlassian Bamboo, Jira + Agile boards, Confluence and Bitbucket

Expekt.com

Daily tasks include maintaining, bug fixing, refactoring and adding new functionality to betting web applications, their respective back office applications, as well as a mobile web application and a native android application.This involves programming at different levels, such ax database layer (queries, jobs and procedures), dao layers, service layers, controller logic, server side dynamic html and client side javascript for better user experience and dynamic html, on different systems, some of which has been around for about ten years.
Using Scrum and Jira for time tracking and backlog management.

iCube+

Day to day tasks include designing new features, bug fixing, refactoring of a Unified Messaging System called iCube+. Responsibilities included programming at different levels of the system such as database access layers, service layers, action/servlet logic, server side dynamic html and client side javascript for better user experience and dynamic html. Using Scrum methodology, and Jira  for time tracking and backlog management.

Software Engineer

Computime

Responsibilities included requirements gathering and analysis at clients including as MFSA, BOV and EC. Java web application development including new systems, features and maintenance of old systems developed by others. Small Microsoft business intelligence applications development. Communication with clients as well as software suppliers both locally and internationally.

Software Developer / Analyst

HOB Software

First year with the company was spent in Germany, in the main company headquarters, undergoing software engineering training using C/C++ for the first months and afterwards Java. Training included building simple projects/modules to be integrated with other products such as HOBLink JWT, development of a light weight web mail client.

As a Director of Engineering at Teylor, I lead the engineering teams building the future of SME finance through the innovative Teylor Lending Platform, operating as both a direct digital lender and a technology partner empowering traditional financial institutions.

My passion lies in fostering a collaborative and empowering environment where every team member feels valued and motivated to grow and succeed. I believe in servant leadership and data-driven decision-making to guide teams and organizations toward achieving their full potential. My technical expertise includes a proven track record of navigating complex technology migrations with minimal disruption.

I'm committed to leveraging my expertise in software development and engineering leadership to create impactful solutions that benefit customers, employees, and stakeholders alike.

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