Porto Metropolitan Area
A bit more about me: I am curious about how things work, passionate about using technology to build valuable solutions and products, and I believe we must care for both mind and body. I won my first computer at 13 at a national school competition and learned to code through magazines as there was no internet. I started working in a startup doing everything from mobile development to setting up data centers, from providing 24/7 support to pre-sales. Microsoft eventually acquired that startup. A few years later, I launched my startup in the tech space, which Farfetch acquired. In between, I won the first worldwide Google Android Developers Challenge in 2008, which led to a successfully IPOed startup 11 years later, wrote for magazines, and learned to be on stage. I became interested in martial arts at 15, having done competitive tae kwon do and exploring other styles, from kickboxing to capoeira. I continue to exercise, meditate, and keep healthy by learning to balance work and life (knowing I can be a workaholic).
Leading the Technology team at Farfetch - including product, engineering, security, governance, compliance, architecture, and infrastructure.
• Board member. • Management of internal research activities and product development. • Principal consultant for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Key Achievements • Assessment and implementation of ALM best practices on multiple clients. • Guest speaker at several ALM and Testing events. • Development of internal tools improving efficiency of testing services. • Development of service to enable aggregation and execution of multiple automated test types for websites.
• Coordination with local and remote teams from various disciplines to promote effective communication, adoption of methodologies and resolution of potential conflicts. • Collaboration with management on overall team activities and recommending improvements to existing testing process. • Architecture and coordination of development for the group’s testing platforms. • Active participation in the innovation process at Microsoft. Key Achievements • Delivery of various Microsoft products available to millions of users worldwide, including: Microsoft MyPhone.com, WindowsPhone.com, Windows Phone 7 an Windows Phone 7 Retail Demo. • Design and implementation of platforms for automated testing, code coverage and performance adopted in several projects at Microsoft. • Development of test team member’s technical and non-technical skills, with results recognized by management. • Promoting a culture of increased proactivity, responsibility and accountability.
Part of the team that participated in the first Google Android Challenged. We were part of the 50 application what won the global competition with application that grew to become Life360.
• Conceptualization of new products and architectures. • Analysis for evolution opportunities for the company products. • Research and development of new technologies • Technical analysis of competition and potential partnerships. Key Achievements • Creation of a company’s research and innovation unit. • Improvements on synchronization technology for the company’s flag product, leading to new products and business opportunities. • Expansion of company’s flag product to Android and iOS platforms.
• Architecture and development of new products. • Technical coordination and development of internal frameworks across multiple platforms and products. • Implementation and regulation of the internal source control system • Project management • Coordination of multiple Internships. Key Achievements • Creation of new products implemented in both national and international. • MobileKeeper (company’s flag product) development and deployment in multiple national and international clients - strong presence in the Middle East. • Onsite coordination with several teams for the deployment of the Target Mobile Store solution, guaranteeing a successful opening of ESPRIT’s first store on 5th Avenue, New York. • Improvement of internal development process, ensuring overall code quality and security, bug fix response time and efficient management of concurrent developments in the same product. • Interview and selection of new candidates, contributing to continuous enablement of a dynamic, agile and innovative team.
• Analysis of customer requirements • Development of Web and mobile solutions in the Telecommunications, Retail and Sales Force Automation. • Deployment and support of developed solutions. Key Achievements • Design, architecture and development of multi-platform mobile framework which significantly reduced development time and time-to-market on all company’s mobile solutions. • Implementation of Web and WAP interfaces for the MyTMN portal for TMN • Member of the 24x7 support team, effectively supporting multiple implementations on both national and international clients.