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

Cognizant

- I actively participate in RFIs, RFPs and client discussions
- I build and manage relationships with both external and internal stakeholders.
- I actively manage day by day operations for 4 teams across 3 different projects, including staffing, performance management, goal setting and mentoring. 
- I remain engaged in R&D initiatives driving cloud migrations of our tooling and the adoption of code companiontechnology based on Github Copilot and OpenAI
- I ideate and build performance management documents, conduct hiring management and staffing for the Web group.

Senior Engineering Manager

As a community manager I am driving a group of approximately 160 engineers. My responsibilities are both operational and strategic and include: staffing, hiring management, performance management, developing initiatives and programs that provide opportunities and thought leadership for our community, research and development project ownership. 

I am always in contact with multiple stakeholders assessing a wide array of situations and providing solutions. 

I interview and discuss offers as well as staffing options with external candidates and participate in client calls in order to identify the best matching candidates.

Community Manager

Cognizant Softvision

The Community Lead role is responsible for managing a subset of an engineering community. 
Key activities include but are not limited to: 
- Building teams: from on boarding to staffing to regular follow ups, always checking that our colleague's career plans are in sync with the delivery team's plans. 
- Building careers: developing career plans, growth plans and coaching both technical and soft skills.
- Hiring management
- Strategic community initiatives: designing and implementing diverse talent programmes targeted at building knowledge, shifting technology focus, training entry level colleagues, training interviewers and team leaders, community growth, engagement 
- R&D projects technical ownership: Technical drive and supervision over R&D teams, helping with general architecture overview, engaging in discussions with different stakeholders and third party departments in order to facilitate coordination with the team.
- Performance reviews and objective management.

Community Lead

Developing PHP applications and REST APIs for a large logistics company. Improving existing code and creating new features. Find the best solutions for connecting the existing application with third party applications.

Developing and maintaining modules and features for one of the top CRM solutions on the market.

Working on breaking down a monolithic web application (PHP) into several micro services written in Python. This involves working with asynchronous requests between the micro services and keeping Postgres databases in sync as well as decomposing large parts of the monolith and recreating then into new services

PHP/Python Software Engineer

Cloud Connect IT

Development Team Leader

Gameloft

I was selected to become the team leader of the local business intelligence team (8 team members). 

My daily responsibilities were related to administrative team management, technical support, task breakdown and estimations and overall delivery of required features.

Occasionally I interviewed new candidates for the open positions within our team. 

I provided feedback to my colleagues and participated in their performance reviews as an evaluator.

Business Intelligence Team Leader

Working on custom business intelligence solutions, developed by our department using PHP and InfiniDB (a columnar solution for Mysql) capable of extracting, transforming and loading millions of new entries per day.

One such solution was represented by our state of the art analytics tool that displayed complex in-game data and metrics including financial details to our main game stakeholders.

Daily responsibilities included ticket validation, solutioning, implementation and delivery. I was working as part of an 8 member team interacting with different stakeholders spread across our organization.

I was selected to be a part of a limited special purpose team deployed to identify and fix issues in one of our online games developed for the SE Asia market. Together with my 3 other colleagues we stabilized the product before returning to our original team.

PHP Developer - Business Intelligence

FaroDevelopment

Developing web applications with Php, MySql, HTML, CSS, Javascript. Custom framework used

Junior Web Developer

Community Manager, Web | I am driving an engineering community of about 160 colleagues located in two hubs. | I build and grow individual tech profiles, teams and engineering communities.

The views and opinions found on my LinkedIn profile, are my own and do not reflect the ones of my employer, colleagues or peers.

As an accomplished management professional, I am leading a team of 160 engineers providing strategic and operational oversight to ensure top-tier performance. My expertise lies in developing individuals, teams, and technical communities, while coordinating engagement and growth initiatives. In my current role, I oversee staffing, hiring management, and strategic program development that drives the dimensions of the group. I also work closely with stakeholders to assess various situations and provide tailored solutions to achieve goals.

My experience in a previous role also includes supporting business across the Web community, recruiting, interviewing and onboarding candidates, hiring management, team structure design and allocation, and supporting career development, growth plans, mentoring, and coaching initiatives. Additionally, I act as a product owner and drive continuous development on R&D initiatives within the Web Community. I am proficient in using Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, and I support using task tracking tools like Jira, Redmine, etc.

As a former web developer with a backend-centric profile, I started my software development journey as a PHP Engineer. Throughout my career, I have gained experience in various fields, including Business Intelligence, where I worked on large data sets extracted, transformed, and loaded into analytics tools developed by our teams. As a team leader, I led a team of seven people from a technical and administrative standpoint. I have also worked on a world-class CRM solution and have experience in Python development, including restructuring a PHP monolith into microservices written in Python and running on Docker. In addition, I have supported an R&D team in developing a Docker-based REACT+NodeJS+Postgres application.

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