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Porto, Portugal

In my role as Senior Principal at Farfetch, I significantly broadened my impact by collaborating closely with senior leadership across various departments. This strategic alignment enabled me to play a pivotal role in company-wide initiatives like Github Copilot adoption or the transition from REST to GraphQL across our platforms, facilitating its integration by experience teams on iOS, Android, and Web.My leadership extended to mentoring Principal and Senior Mobile Engineers, focusing on enhancing the stability, performance, and scalability of Farfetch’s Global Apps. I successfully maintained an iOS application codebase that expanded over 9 years to include 600k+ lines of code, supporting growth from 1 to 100+ engineers, while achieving 99.9% uptime and maintaining a crash-free rate of 99.9% among 1 million daily active users.Furthermore, I significantly influenced our technical direction by providing a three-year vision for strategic initiatives. My contributions improved our live monitoring and alerting systems, established clear governance policies, and led the overhaul of core frameworks. I also championed the adoption of cutting-edge technologies like SwiftUI, and played a pivotal role in developing a revolutionary AI fashion assistant.

Porto, Portugal

As a Principal Engineer at Farfetch, I significantly enhanced my impact in the mobile domain, overseeing technical strategies for both iOS and Android platforms. I balanced my leadership duties with hands-on contributions to the iOS codebase, demonstrating a strong commitment to both macro objectives and detailed execution.I spearheaded a technical team responsible for defining and executing the technical roadmap, supporting the product development teams and allowing to scale the mobile domain from 8 to 16 teams. My focus was on optimizing development productivity through internal tooling, introducing automated performance checks, refining release processes, and ensuring the stability of automated tests and CI/CD operations.A key part of my role was fostering integration between the Mobile Domain and other crucial areas such as Product, Design, Platform, Security, Architecture, and Data Analytics. I introduced innovative live monitoring tools and an on-call process ensuring 24/7 app support, equipped with automatic triggers based on tailored technical and business metrics.Additionally, I led the development of a new Native UI Framework, designed from scratch to enhance collaboration between Design, Product, and Engineering teams. This framework allowed for the creation of native UI screens from JSON definitions, supported by internal tools, laying the groundwork for a robust, server-configurable Design System.I also defined OKRs for all engineers within the domain, streamlining our goals and ensuring alignment across teams.

Porto, Portugal

As a Lead Engineer at Farfetch, I oversaw two multidisciplinary teams, growing to manage over 12 professionals including iOS and Android Engineers, Functional QAs, and Automation QAs. This role marked my initial step into leadership, expanding my responsibilities significantly.I actively managed team dynamics through regular one-on-one meetings, providing mentorship, coaching, and training. I also conducted performance reviews to support career development. My role was central in technical decision-making, guiding Scrum ceremonies, defining user stories, and ensuring sprint commitments in collaboration with Product Owners and Designers.I maintained a hands-on approach with our codebase, enhancing our code review process to foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning among the team. Additionally, I implemented a structured release process that ensured an app update was ready for customers at the end of every sprint.

Porto, Portugal

In my role as a Senior iOS Engineer at Farfetch, I expanded my responsibilities beyond initial development to significantly enhance our app's scalability and adaptability in response to its rapid growth and increasing business impact. I led efforts to further modularize our codebase, which not only improved code reusability but also reduced side effects in new developments.A notable achievement was leading the transition of our codebase from Objective-C to Swift. This shift allowed me to deepen my expertise in Swift, incorporating advanced concepts of functional and protocol-oriented programming.Additionally, I took on leadership responsibilities by mentoring junior engineers and playing a pivotal role in the hiring process, helping to shape the team’s skills and growth.

Porto, Portugal

As an original member of Farfetch's first iOS team, I was instrumental in designing, developing, and launching the company's first fully native iOS app. Within a challenging six-month period, we delivered a robust application, marking a significant milestone for the company's mobile strategy. This required a very close collaboration with platform teams to define what later would be the contracts of the first public APIs. I played a central role in architecting foundational elements of the app, employing advanced design patterns and effective SDK modularization. This groundwork ensured the app's longevity, avoiding major rewrites for several years.I also contributed to establishing a testing culture at Farfetch, implementing unit, UI, and automation tests that significantly reduced critical bugs. Additionally, I integrated a CI/CD system, enhancing our development cycle with consistent, automated code updates.

Porto, Portugal

As an iOS Engineer at Blip (a Betfair company during my tenure), I took part in the development of the iOS Sportsbook app, a project initiated to coincide with the 2014 World Cup. This ambitious six-month venture marked my first engagement in a medium-sized, agile team, where I contributed to building a high-performance large scale iOS application from the ground up.As part of one of five dedicated iOS teams, we pioneered a new app that required robust collaboration and finely tuned engineering processes. We successfully launched the app on schedule, providing a seamless user experience tailored for major sporting events. Post-launch, I continued enhancing the app’s performance and user interface, addressing the needs of a growing and demanding sports market with events including the Grand National and Cheltenham Horse Racing.The role significantly deepened my expertise in managing large-scale, high-traffic applications with strict high-availability demands. During critical live-event periods, I ensured the app operated flawlessly, handling substantial transaction volumes without disruption.This experience honed my technical skills in iOS development and gave me profound insights into delivering and maintaining critical software solutions under high stakes, reinforcing my capability to develop and optimize premier applications in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

Porto, Portugal

As a Software Engineer at Memória Visual, I led full-stack development initiatives, designing robust backend systems, databases, and interactive websites. I also pioneered the company’s mobile app development, delivering applications for both Android and iOS platforms. Beyond development, I introduced new practices that enhanced our operational efficiencies, including the adoption of GIT for version control, which significantly improved our workflow and project management.

Porto, Portugal

Development of a hybrid approach to the creation of a recommender system.Keywords: User profiling, collaborative filtering, data mining, machine learning.

Porto, Portugal

Research scholarship in the areas of communication networks and development of mobile applications.Contributions to the Vital Responder project, developing Android OS applications.Research on ad-hoc networks to allow communication and information sharing between mobile devices.

Porto, Portugal

Internship in technical assistance, installation and configuration of software systems and costumer service.

Integrated Master Degree, Informatics And Computing Engineering

Final average grade: 17 (0~20) A (European grading scale)

Education record

One semester abroad in Poland under Erasmus Programme

High School, Informatics Technological Course

Final average grade: 18 (0~20)