A timeline of my professional journey, building products and leading teams across various industries.

Staff SRE

Dashlane

2025 — Present

Lead and architect scalable solutions, mentorship and innovation.

Key Achievements

Cloud Architecture: Architect scalable, secure cloud solutions serving millions of users.

Leadership: Lead and mentor engineering teams.

System Re-architecture: Drive re-architecture initiatives that enhanced system scalability and strengthened security.

Resilience Engineering: Design resilient systems with automated disaster recovery and fault tolerance.

Impact: Scalable secure solutions, mentorship, automated disaster recovery

SRE

Etleap

2021 — 2024

Led infrastructure enhancements, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines to optimize efficiency and scalability.

Key Achievements

AWS Infrastructure Optimization: Managed and optimized AWS cloud infrastructure, driving cost reductions while enhancing system performance and scalability.

Terraform Expertise: Enhanced and maintained Terraform configurations for B2B private installations within AWS VPCs, ensuring seamless deployment and efficient resource management.

CI/CD Performance: Reduced CI build times in CircleCI from over 60 minutes to under 35 minutes, significantly improving development cycle speed and efficiency.

Comprehensive Monitoring: Defined and implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions, including metrics, alarms, APM, and proactive processes to ensure system reliability and performance.

Technologies: AWS, Terraform, CircleCI, Infrastructure as Code, APM, Monitoring

Mobile Product Lead

Telpark — Premium Minds

2019 — 2024

Led the development of the #1 car parking app in Spain and Portugal, serving over 4 million users with seamless parking solutions.

Key Achievements

Market Leadership: Successfully developed and maintained the leading car parking application in the Iberian Peninsula, serving over 4 million active users.

Product Research & Innovation: Conducted in-depth research and evaluation of existing and emerging products to identify new sales opportunities and enhance the product offering.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including Car Parks and On-street Legislation, to align development plans and ensure regulatory compliance.

B2B Relationship Management: Strengthened B2B customer relationships by actively engaging users and continuously improving their experience with the product.

Impact: #1 parking app in Spain & Portugal, 4M+ users, enhanced B2B partnerships

Infrastructure Lead/SRE

Telpark — Premium Minds

2017 — 2021

Led the transformation of automated infrastructure, implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, rigorous monitoring, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for enhanced efficiency.

Major Achievements

Reliability Transformation: Achieved a significant improvement in platform stability, increasing uptime from frequent downtimes to 99.95% reliability.

Infrastructure as Code Migration: Migrated the existing manual deploys to Terraform IaC, successfully integrating development teams into the infrastructure management process.

Container Orchestration: Successfully migrated to the Nomad orchestrator, enhancing scalability, resource utilization, and deployment efficiency.

Monitoring Excellence: Defined and implemented comprehensive monitoring solutions, including metrics, alarms, application performance monitoring (APM), and proactive processes to ensure system reliability.

CI/CD Standardization: Developed a unified Jenkins pipeline for all microservices and jobs, streamlining the CI process and ensuring consistency across the platform.

Technologies: Terraform, Nomad, Jenkins, AWS, APM, Infrastructure as Code

Impact: 99.95% uptime, unified CI/CD, automated infrastructure management

Product Manager

Winphar — Premium Minds

2015 — 2016

Pharmacy POS, Backend system and Automated order system

Key Responsibilities

Technical Debt Management: Designed the roadmap to refactor the software, addressing significant technical debt and modernizing the codebase.

Agile Leadership: Led the development using Scrum & Kanban methodologies, ensuring efficient project delivery and team collaboration.

Communication Enhancement: Improved the communication flow between client/helpdesk/development team, resulting in better issue resolution and customer satisfaction.

Technologies: POS Systems, Backend Architecture, Automated Ordering

Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, Technical Debt Management

Product Manager

Learning Portal — Premium Minds

2013 — 2015

Learning Portal for teachers and students with over 200k teachers and students, for a leading book publisher in Portugal.

Key Responsibilities

Product Management: Responsible for the product management of the new frontend and backoffice.

Product Design: Designed the new product for teachers and students.

Data-Driven Decisions: Made product decisions through KPIs and metrics.

CTO/Lead Engineer

Limetree

2012 — 2013

Mobile App to store family memories.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Development: Designed the platform’s architecture and led the development of backend, frontend, and mobile applications.

DevOps: Implemented and improved the deployment process, managed the Amazon Web Services systems.

Founder/Lead Engineer

MyOut

2011 — 2012

Online Cultural Agenda for Portugal.

Key Responsibilities

Full Stack Development: All development in backend, frontend, crawlers and search: using ElasticSearch, Redis.

Web Application Developer

Sanoma Media

2011

Development of Facebook and Twitter applications mainly in PHP.

Java Developer

CIIST

2009 — 2010

  • Worked on projects Fénix and Aquisitions
  • Projects used by more than 12k students and 4k staff members every week
  • Used across several universities and manages all courses, finance, people.
  • Monitor site technical performance and web servers
  • Creating and maintaining existing modules
  • Designing and developing internet applications and ensuring strong web optimization and functionality