As Stratio shifted its focus to more ambitious markets our team started designing and developing an IoT solution for the automotive sector that aimed to perform a continuous mechanical analysis from the vehicle’s sensors, and thus be able to identify patterns that can lead to failures and malfunctions (SME Instrument Phase 2 funding).Stratio sudden growth required us to look for a better sustainable approach that would support its growth (product complexity, team size and functions) while making progress at a competitive pace.As a Project Manager I was mainly focused on coaching the team(s) in the integration of agile values and processes in the company’s core (through Scrum and Kanban), fostering the developer team’s self-organisation, helping with the product vision and backlog and trying to inspire a mindset of iterative improvement through an empirical process.I gravitated towards the integration of new tools, definition of an organizational design and technological strategy, planning of team activities and open panels, and the search for the processes that would thrive a company culture that was aligned with Stratio’s mission.

Laravel PHP Web Framework; RESTful APIs; MySQL; PostgreSQL; Nginx; HTML5; CSS3, JavaScriptAs a Full Stack Developer at Stratio I was part of a team developing the web pages and web applications that support Traderline - a multi-platform trading software for the Betfair Exchange, and Stratio’s main product.Full Stack in a sense that I was responsible for the Server and Hosting Environment, Data Modeling, Business Logic, API and User Interface, in the development of Traderline’s backoffice and multi-gateway checkout and invoicing web applications.

ENED - National Meeting of Design Students - is a migrant meeting that receives hundreds of students, enthusiasts and professionals from a various rank of Design specialties.In 2016, Coimbra (Portugal) received its 5th edition under the motto “From Education to Practice”. The speakers were invited to reflect on their path and to revisit their work as students, in an attempt to make the transition from student to being a professional clearer and more helpful.How did it go? https://2016.ened.pt/review

Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Informática (National Meeting of Informatics Students) is a portuguese conference that brings together over 500 students from all over the country to a single location. Its purpose is to provide talks, workshops and discussions panels with national and international speakers and enthusiasts while promoting socialization between attendees and partners.

Shift APPens is a technological event that gathers students from several technological areas, as well as entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts. Shift APPens is a 48h hackathon organized by NEIAAC - the students core of Informatics Engineering and Multimedia Design - and jeKnowledge - a junior enterprise from the University of Coimbra.Looking to provide a relaxed environment and to promote a healthy competition and share of knowledge this hackathon was born with the purpose to serve the student community (later extended to young tech entusiasts), by helping participants to bring their ideas to life, while making it easy to develop hard and soft skills, like creativity, teamwork and communication.