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

talabat

Sr. Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

GetYourGuide

Careem/Uber

Guidance and coaching on technical excellence, continuous delivery and minimizing lead time to make an impact, Theory of Constraints and Lean.

Building quality in, removing waste and shortening feedback loops.

DDD/CQRS/Event Sourcing, Ports and Adapters and XP (Trunk Based Development, TDD, Continuous Refactoring, Pairing and Mobbing).
Continuous Delivery of value.

Outcomes over output.
Impact over feature factory.
Whole team approach.

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Nul Tien

Tech guidance and development for a couple of ongoing projects (mostly Microsoft ecosystem)
Microservices with Domain Driven Design and Ports and Adapters

Teaching and mentoring good design skills and implementing XP practices (TDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, Refactoring etc.)

Microservices with Domain Driven Design and Ports and Adapters architecture
ASP.NET Core/Angular4/TypeScript/WebAPI/CI and CD with Jenkins Pipeline and Docker/TDD with XUnit and AutoFixture

Knowledge sharing sessions, coding dojos, workshops, internal projects

Software Architect

DEVTECH

Technical guidance, mentoring of two teams responsible for implementation of system used for process automation around provisioning and administration of Office 365 products for Microsoft’s Cloud Solution Providers

C#/TypeScript/MongoDB/WCF/DDD/CQRS/EventSourcing

Decomposing monolith into microservices architecture
Ports and Adapters architecture
Implemented XP practices in the team (sustainable TDD, pair and mob programming, CI…)

Held 20+ knowledge sharing sessions on topics like: Clean Code, Software Design and Architecture, Test Driven Development, Actor model etc.

Technical Team Lead

Design and development of customizations for cloud hosting platforms.

Senior Software Developer

Schneider Electric DMS NS

C#/WCF/MSMQ/BizTalk

Design and implementation of high volume Smart Grid graph data used for integration of ADMS product with GIS.
Design and architecture of core components used for integration of ADMS solution with various external enterprise systems (e.g. GPS tracking systems, CRM, GIS etc).

Integration lead on implementation of ADMS solution in Unison Networks, New Zealand

Coaching and mentoring on topics including: TDD, Clean Code, Software Design and Architecture

Implementation of tools and services for offline and online integrations on various ADMS projects.

Software engineer

Trying hard not to think about small batches, bottlenecks, and systems.

In the meantime: eXtreme Programming, Theory of Constraints, Lean, Systems Thinking.

Ramblings at draganstepanovic.com
BlueSky: @dstepanovic.bsky.social

Dragan Stepanović

What Randy Shoup said.

Either subordinate to the bottleneck, or you not only won't improve things, but you'll make them worse!
So, making things worse not _in spite of_ your efforts to improve them, but _because_ of them.

Sr. Principal Engineer at talabat | Delivery Hero

AI made writing code cheap. Shipping it safely has never been more expensive.

That’s the paradox most teams are living with right now. The bottleneck isn’t generating code, it’s validating and delivering it with confidence.

I think of this dilemma as the “confidence gap.” Teams get excited about the instant lift of AI code generation. Then it hits manual review, backed up pipelines, and poorly implemented release tooling and the wheels come off the bus. Delivery goes right back to where it was, or worse.

Faced with pressure to maintain velocity, many teams take shortcuts—reducing test coverage, working in larger batch sizes, and rubber-stamping PRs. We all know where this leads. We’ve spent years trying to break these habits and now we’re right back there.

Software delivery is a system. If we really want to benefit from AI code generation, we have to improve the rest of the system with it. That’s where AI needs to go next, and it’s where we’re focusing at CircleCI.

How are you closing the gap between faster coding and safe delivery?

taplio

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