Henrique Alves

SVP Technology at Jumia Group

Porto, Porto, Portugal

About

I've had the privilege to work with and learn from people and companies that beat the odds on a daily basis. Tough challenges on tight schedules became opportunities to harness the power of focus and team work towards simple solutions that get the job done. The most important thing I've learned last year: Occam's razor beats Murphy's law.

Experience

  • SVP Technology at Jumia Group
    Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

  • CTO at Jumia Porto Tech Center
    Oct 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 10 mos

    Supporting development, systems, quality, human resources and processes across Jumia Group. HIRING Ninja Developers, Jedi Master System Administrators, DevOps Gurus and Quality Assurance Heroes!

  • Rocket Internet GmbH ()
    • CTO
      Oct 2013 - Oct 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Supporting development, systems, quality, human resources and processes across Rocket-Internet's Porto Technology Center. Acting as interim CTO for several ventures sourced at the Technology Center.

    • Project CTO
      Oct 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr

      Technical leadership on global e-commerce and operations web applications development. Interfacing business requirements and technical execution. Refining and optimizing the software development process.

    • Expert Team Leader
      Aug 2012 - Oct 2012 · 3 mos

      Supervising tech leads from several e-commerce projects. Interfacing those projects with their core application development.

  • INESC Porto (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • IT Technician/Researcher
      Sep 2010 - Feb 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Developer at the Breadcrumbs project (social web news clipping recommendation system): - heavy contribution to the application architecture - full implementation the custom authentication/authorization layer - contribution to the REST API development - heavy contribution to the classification and recommendation engine.

    • Junior Researcher
      Sep 2009 - Sep 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Developed: - custom algorithms in Java for a document classification engine based on state of the art information retrieval technologies. - DSpace module to connect and retrieve information from the classification engine. - custom meta-data (DC&LOM) OAI harvester to feed a DSpace instance coupled with the classification engine.

  • Self employed at Freelance internet and networks services
    Jan 2007 - Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Web development: e-commerce and institutional. Network and systems management in small offices. IT consultant.