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OLX is shaping the future of trade as one of the world’s fastest-growing networks of trading platforms, operating in 30+ countries under 20+ well-loved brands including OLX, Otomoto, letgo, StandVirtual, Autovit.ro, and many more. With 300M monthly active users (MAUs), US$ 1.3B revenue and +37% revenue growth (FY 20) supported by a team of 10,000+ people. My main responsibilities are:. Shape and deliver initiatives that support Engineering across OLX.. Develop processes to maintain best practice for software delivery, quality, and performance.. Collaborate with multiple teams to design innovative solutions and opportunities within a problem domain. . Analyse, evaluate, and mitigate risks, balancing these against the possibility to learn from failures.. Pair with Lead Engineers, Heads of Engineering and Product to foster a Culture of continuous improvement.

Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

After a few years of managing one of the most efficient and effective teams at uMotif I was promoted to the position of Head of Engineering.My daily activities revolve around delivering a high performance, scalable, and reliable patient centric eClinical platform. In order to achieve that, I manage five agile teams, overseen by four Tech Leads and one Delivery manager who form my report team.

London

After a few years with uMotif I was promoted to the position of Android Lead.As a hands-on Lead my responsibilities were:. Manage the workload of the Android Team. Manage and set expectations with the relevant stakeholders . Produce and do more presentation than I expected. Help the business define future work. Manage the individuals in the Android Team, encouraging their growth and maximizing their contribution to the team and businessHighlights:. Expanded existing code base. Expanded application targeting exclusively interventional studies. Advise the business on the limitations of current technology based on proposed roadmap. Lead three distinct projects and managing a team of 5 people. Recruitment of developers to the Android team. Recruitment to other IT teams

Londres, Reino Unido

uMotif is the data capture platform patients love to use. Highlights:. Modernise existing code base. Modularise one of the existing features to enable conversion it into a library to be used internally and by partners. Create application targeting exclusively interventional studies from scratch. Advise the business on the limitations of current technology based on proposed roadmap. Create application so that users can input their level of pain in a digital mannequin (application was used by researchers and a paper was written on the back of that). Recruitment of developers to the Android team. Recruitment to other IT teams

Londres, Reino Unido

Audioboom's ambition to reinvent Radio led to the company to bet on hosting and distributing Podcasts.Highlights:. Maintained existing code base until it was clear it was not up to standard which led me to the next item. Lead the project to rewrite the Android App from scratch (replacing the existing app in Google Play). Designed, implemented and iterated the existing App data reporting scheme. Added support to Google Assistant. Added support to Android Wear. Helped to introduce Scrum. Added support to Android Auto. App was featured by Google Play (the "new" version of it). We won the "Audio and Radio Industry Award" for the Best Digital Audio Service.

London

In July 2014, Shareight was one of the hottest start-ups in London having smashed the previous record of financing via Seeders at that time. It's a Shopping app with a lot of character.Highlights:. Developed the Android App from scratch (from the first line of code to release). Guided the Design team around UI/UX best practices. Guided the Back-end team regarding how best to deliver the content to the App. Involved in recruitment

Londres, Reino Unido

Blinkbox Music was the British Spotify and was acquired by the Blinkbox group shortly before I joined.Highlights:. Re-branded the legacy app. Revisited the existing Ad Engine. Added Chromecast support. Improved the existing Download Manager. Created seasonal feature Framework. 2nd Place in Internal Hackathon (smart watch integration). Provided support to Ad Ops team . Mentored other developers. Journey from 48k active users to more than 1M in less than 6 months

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

Developed and published a paper related to an open source AndroidPlatform for Mobile Augmented Reality applications.