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

GetYourGuide

Responsible for UX at GetYourGuide's Growth Product Group. We focus on audience growth, audience engagement, and the early discovery experience of travelers. 

Responsibilities include:
- Partner with Director of Product to define and communicate product strategy
- Hire and develop amazing UX talent, ensure they are happy and high-performing
- Foster a culture of feedback, craft excellence, and thoughtful design practices
- Define and lead product design discipline projects that will help our team be more efficient & improve our product quality

Apart from the responsibilities in Growth, I also sponsored and led Compass, GetYourGuide's design system.

Senior UX Manager

Responsible for the quality of work and career growth of the product designers in the Supplier and Onsite Marketing Groups, as well as bringing design/UX's point of view in the strategic discussions in those areas. My role spans tactical work like doing design reviews and 1:1s with my team and hiring new members, to contributing to the strategy for a specific group and planning future hiring needs to support the strategy.

Product Design Manager

Led the design team across HelloFresh’s digital platforms, including product designers and UX writers. Grew the team from 2 to 14 and introduced structures to ensure career growth and quality of output. My role included outlining product designer career steps, setting designer hiring processes and helping create healthy processes within the team.

Sponsored design-initiated projects including experiments that targeted retention of HelloFresh’s existing subscriber base — showing results such as 16% increase in orders per customer —and a design system built to increase designer and developer efficiency. My role spanned scoping and advocating for projects, bringing in and guiding designers within the projects to hands-on work on research and design phases.

Head of UX

Worked in large-scale projects such as the HelloFresh loyalty program, US wine club and revamping of HelloFresh account area. Collaborated with business stakeholders and customer insights teams to understand market / business needs, define goals and definition of success.
Worked with HelloFresh’s growth team to launch experiments targeted at boosting conversions through small iterations as well as new concepts. Later on, focused on retention, to improve the experience for existing customers. This included working with POs to define goals and core data points to measure.
Conducted and guided user research with users from different countries and incorporated research into the design workflow. Used insights gathered to create user flows, interactive prototypes and final UI, as well as raise awareness for the user within the organization.

Product Designer

Monitise MEA

Senior Interaction Designer

Worked as the sole interaction designer in building Ziraat Bank’s mobile application, along with business analysts, UI designer and developers to carry the project from concept to implementation.
Delivered projects for clients, such as RBS and Visa, collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs, guide expectations for end products and create digital experiences around new concepts. 
Conducted user research and usability studies at different stages of projects, and prepared detailed reports of the findings to guide the design process.
Managed the design track of long and short-term projects to ensure healthy communication, creating personas, user journeys, detailed wireframes & prototypes.

Interaction Designer

Weather Underground

Worked within an agile project team consisting of project manager, UI designer, developers and meteorologists, to deliver projects such as enabling site-wide weather alerts and increasing the sign up rates of PWS program (the main differentiator of WU).
Carried projects from beginning to end; by leading sketch sessions, brainstorming workshops at the beginning of product development, creating wireframes and interactive prototypes for user testing and team communication.
Integrated user research within product development by planning and conducting user testing within team projects. Initiated by these efforts, we created a database of users for research and set up rules for using the database for the design and product teams.

User Experience Designer

FYM Creative Group

Designed exhibition stands, product displays, event venues and stages for companies, ranging from consumer goods to the entertainment industry.
Worked as the lead designer in projects; created the final design concepts, 3D models, detailed building specs for production as well as overseeing the building of concepts and managing the team. Collaborated with clients to understand and shape the overall vision, expectations and restrictions.
Acted as the bridge between production and marketing teams to monitor budget and implementation

DESIGN OFFICE

Designed product display stands
Worked with lead designers on house renovation and space organization projects, doing 2D visuals and space analysis on-site

Product Design Intern

Pasabahce Glassware

Designed glassware for alcoholic beverages within the manufacturing restrictions of the company
Collaborated in a team to create a new line of glass mugs and prepare presentations for management

Arte Fine Glassware

Produced unique glassware items, using CAD programs and applying glassware decoration and engraving methods to transform basic glass products
Collaborated with lead designer to facilitate production of new glassware lines

I’m a product and experience designer living in Berlin. My aspiration is to use technology and design to simplify complex problems, create products that reach many people and learn from the feedback that is a fundamental part of software product development. I strongly believe that while a well-designed product should be inherently aesthetically pleasing and functional, the value of a great product comes from its capacity in creating change in people’s behaviors for the better or making their lives easier. 

Over the years, I’ve learned that people and culture within the organizations building those products matter more than I realized at the beginning of my career. Great products are built by teams, who share ideas and truly collaborate to achieve common goals. I enjoy my job when I am part of organizations that build those teams and let them grow.

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