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Maia, Pt

Felgueiras, Porto, Pt

As CTO, my two primary goals were to drive business growth and build a world-class team.Building a World-Class Team:• Cultivated a learning culture and growth mindset within the team• Supported team members and created an environment where everyone could thrive• Encouraged critical thinking by asking questions that empowered informed decision-making• Promoted a blameless culture to enable continuous improvementGrowing the Business:• Delivered key features that provided the most value to clients• Ensured quality in every aspect—quality was non-negotiable• Prioritized effectively and managed the cost of delay• Established a sustainable cadence to enable fast, high-quality deliveryAchieved a 26M€ valuation in Series A fundingLed a tech team of 45 people distributed across 4 engineering teams, 1 DevOps team, 1 product team, and 1 engagement team. Responsible for product and client engagement, as well as delivery.And most important have fun all together!

Adapting Organizations for Agility and ResponsivenessIn a Startup Context:• Guided startups in scaling as product-focused organizations by applying Agile principles• Supported a DevOps and continuous delivery mindset for efficient workflows• Implemented lean portfolio management with an emphasis on prioritization, promoting “start finishing, stop starting” to enhance focus• Offered technology guidance to early-stage teams• Advised on software architecture design, including microservices and continuous delivery/deployment practicesIn Large Organizations:• Shifted the focus to delivering meaningful outcomes over merely staying busy• Applied Lean Portfolio Management to strategically manage company-wide initiatives• Fostered cohesive teams rather than just groups of individuals• Promoted actionable metrics over vanity metrics for genuine performance insights• Established continuous improvement as a structured initiative, not just a casual goal• Trained teams and leaders in Agile and Business Agility principles to drive organizational transformation

London, London, Gb

- Started as a Scrum Master and promoted to Head of Agile after three months- Evolved the Scrum Master role into an Agile Coach role, expanding focus from individual teams to the broader organization- Scaled the Agile Coaches team from 3 to 17 members across Porto, Lisbon, and Shanghai- Supported the tech department’s growth from 70 to 800 employees in four yearsAchievements:- Co-authored the clusters organizational design, inspired by Spotify’s tribes model but customized for Farfetch- Conducted Team Health exercises with delivery teams over two years, reaching 55 teams in the final round- Transitioned from Team Health to a customized Agility Radar to accommodate scaling up to 90 Agile teams (as of August 2018)- Contributed to roadmap processes by introducing estimation techniques and initiative slicing- Led the implementation of Lean Portfolio Management across the Tech department

Porto, Pt

At Blip, an Agile organization structured around Scrum with autonomous teams, I contributed to scaling the company from 50 to 240 employees in just two years while maintaining a lean and healthy culture.Key Responsibilities:- Managed and coached team members through regular 1-on-1 meetings- Developed and monitored Personal Development Plans and conducted performance appraisals- Delivered high-performance websites- Acted as a Continuous Delivery process advocate​ProjectsSportsbook (https://www.betfair.com/sport) Delivery Manager. Managing a Scrum team of 5 developers and 1 QA.Australia Delivery Manager. Managing 2 Scrum teams delivering the two main betfair Australian websites: desktop and mobile.Methodologies used:- Scrum- kanban board- Continuous delivery

Alfragide, Lisbon, Pt

Main responsibilities:- Cape Verde Electronic Identification Project Manager;- Growing and coaching a 5 members team;- Team coordination on the daily activities;- Introduce development processes, tools and frameworks;- Software Application Architecture and Design.Introduce some Agile techniques in the team like:- Kanban Board;- Requirements/User Stories Estimation;- Daily Standup meetings;- Retrospectives;Technologies: Java, Groovy, Spring, CXF Webservices, Tomcat, Spock, JMS, Mule ESB

Alfragide, Lisbon, Pt

Alfragide, Lisbon, Pt

Main responsibilities:- Technical team management by providence guidance on technologies to adopt, patterns and frameworks;- People Management doing personal development plans, performance appraisals, 1-on-1 meetings- Project Planning and Estimation for projects for the Portuguese government and other private companies with high impact and budget;- Software Application Architecture and Design by designing the overall architecture of the major components of the projects;Projects:SEEF - Electronic Invoice service with digital signatures to meet the Portuguese and European law. Implemented for Portuguese Telecom clientsWeb Security Broker - Digital Signatures service for the Portuguese Public Administration Homebanking;Implemented for the Portuguese Ministry of Finance;Portuguese eID - Portuguese citizens identification cards. PKI Services and Infrastructure Implementation (OCSP, Time-Stamp and EMV-CAP) to offer security operations with the National eID cards;

Spring Framework (https://spring.io) and Software Patterns Consultant and Trainer

Lisboa, Pt

Developer and Solution Architect for the development of a PKI services and infrastructure. Also, developing services related to bank transaction using PKI to secure them.Most important project:- MB Net B2C & B2B - https://www.mbnet.pt (Payment gateway)The work of this project have been approved as a PT patent: PT patent Nº 102709 (Financial transactions System in E-Commerce context)Technologies: Java, Postgresql, EJB, JBoss

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