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

DocPlanner

www.sorryengineering.com

Writing about IT, management, and software development from time to time.

Blogger-wannabe

* 2021-11-19, PWr, Wrocław, Poland, „Discovery workshop. How to convert an idea into working solution?”
* 2019-11-25, SegFault Unconference, Kraków, Poland, "Is your feedback meeting about money?"
* 2019-10-29, OlcampLite.Code, Olsztyn, Poland, "Is your feedback meeting about money?"

Speaker-wannabe

Surfer

Divante

Engineering Manager / Solutions Architect

Chief Digital Officer

Fabb Sp. z o.o.

External Consultant

STX Next

Product Owner

IT Project Manager / Engineering Manager

GSMgear_pl @ Academic Business Incubators

Co-Founder

Upnext Technologies

Software Engineer

ITM Software House

I am always open to hearing about your ideas or answering your questions - as long as you do not use templated message. Do not hesitate to msg me.

14 years of commercial experience in software development. I worked at 20-people big startups, 4000-people big companies, and for 50000+ employees big partners.

I write at: www.sorryengineering.com

I prefer chaotic startup environments over corporate ones.

I have practical experience in:
Engineering Management, Senior Engineering Management, Product Management, Coaching and Mentoring Individual Contributors and Managers, Leading the Teams, Leading the Groups of Teams, Sales, Solution Architecture, Pre-sales, Marketing, Finance, Digitalization, Hiring, Corporate Restructuring, Project Management, Program Management, Delivery Management, Customer Interviews, Support Management, Business Analysis, Team Building, Profit&Loss Statements, Finance, Strategy, Being-the-first-manager-at-startup, Being-a-senior-manager-in-a-big-company, Work methodologies, Process optimisation, Legal, Document Workflow Management, Software System Architecture, Technical Design... and more.

Technologies that I used commercially:
Vue, React, Angular, Ember, Electron, PHP, .NET, Elixir, Ruby, Rust, Delphi, SQL, Python, React Native. AWS, GCP, On-premises. Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes. Networking... and more.

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