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

Terramate

I joined Terramate to bring my experience of scaling teams at global unicorns to the early stages of a startup.

Getir

- Responsible for 1 tribe, 5 managers, 6 squads, 40 headcount, in 8 countries
- Mentored multiple senior ICs through the Manager path transition
- Responsible for all user-facing experiences common to all of our 9 businesses
- Owned strategic SaaS vendor relationships, driving significant cost improvements through contract right-sizing
- Technical due diligence for M&A
- Delivered significant performance and cost benefits to core services via scale-appropriate system redesigns 
- Director of Engineering for the German HQ

Leading with empathy through consolidation and the drive for operational efficiency.

Director of Engineering

- Responsible for 2 squads, 1 EM, 1 Lead, 16 headcount
- Managing remote-first teams across 7 countries
- Responsible for core services supporting over 100M registered users

Joined in a high growth phase with the objective of spinning up new teams to accelerate business.

Senior Engineering Manager

lengoo

Grew from 8 to 24 engineers in 4 teams led by EMs.

Got new Machine Translation models deployed to customers in minutes instead of days.

Partnering with Sales, we launched an API-first, fully digital experience for digital native customers that eliminated the need for 90% of human intervention. It helped us gain market share in the Nordics at a lower cost of labor.

Head Of Engineering

Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, and Asia

Travelling

Contentful

Managing the European team, while remaining an active Solutions Architect for key accounts.

Coordinated the intake of customer insights into the Product development process.

Recruited the initial San Francisco Solution Architecture team

Solutions Architect Manager

Providing technical leadership, guidance and organisational coaching to the software teams of 30+ customers, from small startups to large Fortune 500 enterprises across Europe, US and Canada.

Pre-sales technical enablement leading to faster closing times.

Post-sales technical enablement leading to lower churn and higher deal expansion rates.

Supported 30+ enterprise customers including brands like Capital One, Eli Lilly, Bethesda, N26, Porsche Digital, remotely and on-site.

Solutions Architect

HelloFresh (UK & Germany)

Managed up to 15 engineers through Team Leads.

Grew the API, Infrastructure, Payments and Loyalty teams.

Launched Hellofresh in 3 additional countries in less time than expected.
Introduced Infrastructure as Code company-wide, with the ability to completely recover from disasters fully automated.

Introduced a docker-based developer experience which brought the time to first commit of new developers down from a few days to a few hours.

Head of Platform Engineering

Designed and co-developed the Consumer API. It powered the launch of the ios and android apps, bringing the Hellofresh experience to the kitchens of millions more people globally.

Introduced Testing and Architecture practices that brought down the rate of defects and the cycle time of new capabilities.

Founded the Platform teams: API, Infrastructure and Payments.
Developed the hiring process that took Hellofresh from 10 to 100 developers in two years.

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I was contracted to develop the backend for a corporate intranet application which handled multi-currency expense reporting and workflow automation. I joined a team with Angular frontend engineers and supplied the RESTful API as well as all backend services including web server, database and job scheduling. I once again used the Symfony php/mysql stack to deliver a tested and robust product.

Inpakt

Inpakt was a startup building a social network for people wanting to volunteer with nonprofit organizations, as well as a payments processor for such NPOs.

I was attracted to its socially responsible mission and became one of the first engineers on the team. We delivered MVPs built on symfony/php and mysql in a quick iterative fashion, as the company sought to find its product/market fit.

Our three-strong engineering team demonstrated how velocity can increase when adhering to professional engineering practices such as solid principles and TDD, as a healthy codebase was easy to mold and pivot as the business needed.

Sadly, the national market for donations offered little in the way of business viability. We were unable to penetrate foreign markets and the venture folded after less than a year.

Founding Engineer

SAPO

Contracting on behalf of PrimeIT, I joined teams working on large scale e-commerce and adtech products.

Sapo Voucher was a groupon-like service built on a heavily customized code igniter php+mysql platform, to which I introduced symfony components and increased testing coverage for better productivity and resilience, while keeping performance high.

Sapo Ads is a contextual text advertising service running on highly optimized php and bare-metal mysql instances. I helped deliver better campaign management capabilities.

Both products were available throughout the entire Portuguese-speaking community, meaning we were delivering high scale traffic efficiently to millions of users across Portugal, Brazil, North America and Africa.

Seeking to focus on full time software engineering on my own terms, I was engaged by a client in the automotive industry to develop a multilingual car rental platform. I once again used mysql, php and symfony for the job, deepening my knowledge of the framework while delivering a highly customizable system for stock management, booking system and marketing content management.

Freelancing Developer

Scaling tech organizations at global unicorns like Hellofresh, Contentful and Getir since 2015. Programmer since 2001. Educator and content creator. Finding success by empowering others.

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