Thiago Martinho

Engineering Manager

Berlin, Berlin, Germany13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Android and mobile platform engineering.
Proven track record in CI/CD and observability improvements.
Strong leadership skills with a focus on team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused Android Engineering Manager with strong CI/CD and observability expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTeam LeadershipCi/cdSoftware ObservabilityAndroidJava

Other Skills

Technical RoadmapHiringObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Developer ToolingMobile PlatformsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)FastlaneGradleRubyKotlinJetpack ComposeCI (Jenkins)Performance OptimizationRESTful APIsAndroid SDK

About

Engineering Manager with a strong Android and mobile platform background, currently leading at SumUp in Berlin. I started as an Android engineer focused on feature development and later on migrated to a platform infrastructure role with heavy impacting in CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling. I grew into a management role where I now combine technical depth with team leadership, stakeholder alignment, and OKR-driven execution.

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Sumup

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Berlin, Germany

Providing mentorship and career guidance to team members. Alignment between stakeholders and the engineering team regarding priorities and responsibilities. Leading the definition, tracking, and achievement of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), contributing both as an Individual Contributor and as a team lead to ensure organizational goals are met.

Technical RoadmapHiringObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Team LeadershipEngineering Management

Senior Android Engineer

Dec 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

Infrastructure: Member of the Platform team, working on the foundational infrastructure of the Android code base. Implemented a Gradle Remote Build Cache, resulting in a 50%+ reduction in CI build times and significantly accelerating development workflows.
CI/CD Automation: Automated critical CI tasks using Fastlane and Ruby, streamlining release processes and improving deployment reliability.
Enhanced Observability: Focused on observability initiatives for the app and the CI system, including the integration of comprehensive CI build monitoring and the implementation of automatic network tracing within the app.

Developer ToolingMobile PlatformsSoftware ObservabilityContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)FastlaneGradle+1

Trafi

Senior Android Engineer

Nov 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Berlin, Germany

Building features using the latest technologies, including Jetpack Compose, maintaining and improving the app’s infrastructure, such as DI & test setup.
Mentoring other developers, actively documenting information that might be useful for new hires or the future of the codebase, and being a point of contact between product, design, and developers. Contributing to a growing test culture, which aims at having more meaningful unit and UI tests for the app.

AndroidKotlinJetpack Compose

Sumup

Senior Android Engineer

Nov 2020 – Oct 2021 · 11 mos · Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Part of the Android Platform team, which is intended to support other android developers, by providing tools and solid app infrastructure.
Decreased the unit test runtime by more than half, improved how the app handles deep and app links, and multiple CI (Jenkins) improvements. Mentored new developers in the company from their onboarding journey onwards.
Hiring: interviews, case studies review, CV evaluation.

AndroidCI (Jenkins)

Trivago

Software Engineer - Android & Tech Owner

Jan 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater Dusseldorf Area

Helping to build trivago's android app that is used worldwide, focusing on performance, code quality and taking into consideration different locales (RTL, LTR).
Planning the tech roadmap for the app and always looking for improvements to make it better than yesterday.

AndroidPerformance Optimization

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Java Software Developer

Oct 2012 – Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Vitoria, Brazil Metropolitan Area

Development and maintenance of Java software for both Web and Desktop including its documentation, such as use case diagrams, state diagrams, class diagrams and test cases.
With Android, development of native and web apps with third-party libraries integration, push notifications, analytics, crash report, RESTful APIs, dependency injection and mobile database. Also handling different Android API versions, adapting layouts to different screen sizes, publishing app onto Google Play Store and usage of source control tools.

JavaRESTful APIs