Jan 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Lisbon, Portugal · Hybrid

• Integrating Valispace, as an Altium 365 app and ensuring continuity and merging capabilities in the aftermath of a high-profile acquisition.
• Doubling the engineering department's size and coaching new team leads to own all operations, encompassing project management, system architecture, and software development.
• Interfacing cross-departmentally to identify and implement technology solutions that directly impact business growth, streamline processes, and optimize data analytics capabilities, notably equipping DevOps with improved Kubernetes infrastructure to accommodate a surge in demand.
• Cultivating a healthy, productive, and meritocratic department culture that retained 90% of its staff post-merger, despite the temptation of a generous shareholder payout.

Aug 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Positioned Valispace, a fast-growing startup, as an attractive asset for a $20M acquisition by Altium, and directed all due diligence to ensure a frictionless transaction and transition to new ownership.
• Partnered with the CEO & CPO to orient the company's strategic direction and pioneered AI's early adoption.
• Orchestrated an engineering department's 25+ staff on three teams to successfully implement cloud
• computing and other emerging technologies, notably operating a complex global cloud environment with only three engineers.
• Implemented ISO-27001 to access untapped and highly regulated opportunities in the aerospace sector, such as Airbus, Clearspace, and iSpace.

Oct 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Oversaw an operations team of four responsible for 100+ cloud-based & on-premise deployments with maintenance & support.
• Owned a robust continuous integration and deployment pipeline that accelerated time-to-market for
• software releases by 88.89%.
• Established and maintained strong relationships with external vendors and stakeholders to ensure the
• successful integration of third-party tools and services.

Aug 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Performed in-depth code reviews, amplified team productivity, reduced software defects, and streamlined development processes by introducing Agile and automated testing frameworks.
• Developed, maintained, and improved both the backend REST API and the Frontend app.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Lisbon Area, Portugal

• - Built and continuously improved a low-code tool that was ahead of its time because it enabled non-technical users to assemble complex software solutions like ERPs, HR portals, and document management resources; clients included Portugal's government & armed forces.

Jan 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Lisboa e Região, Portugal

• Conceived an IoT modular platform, built its working prototype, and marketed its unique merits as a cost-saving sensor solution accessible to the consumer market.
• Pitched the project to a bigger tech company to secure stable financing and merge capabilities.

Apr 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Lisbon

• Project Management of the App “Partnering Place Mobile”
• Architecture design of UI render engine based on descriptive models
• Development of the app based on Phonegap with Javascript frameworks like Underscroe.js , Backbone.js , Angular.js , and UI customized for the different mobile OS.

May 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Lisboa e Região, Portugal

• - Built and continuously improved a low-code tool that was ahead of its time because it enabled non-technical users to assemble complex software solutions like ERPs, HR portals, and document management resources; clients included Portugal's government & armed forces.

Jan 2011 – May 2011 · 4 mos

• Development of remote management applications, with application in mobile devices, Web-based administration tools, Websites, based on Phonegap with JavaScript frameworks like Underscore.js, Backbone.js, and Angular.js.

Sep 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Developing applications with support for browsers, ex. Websites, Intranets, Newsletters, Database Systems, Multimedia applications, etc., covering multiple areas, Html, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Django, Ajax, ActionScript, etc..