Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
KubernetesSRE+2 skills
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About me
Product thinking,
engineering hands.
I’m a Senior Technical Product Manager and Full Stack Engineer based in Lisbon. I like the rare seat where the person deciding what to build is also comfortable building it.
For years I’ve worked at the intersection of product and deep technology — most recently making physical retail checkout-free at AiFi, where computer vision meets distributed systems at real-world scale. Before the roadmap exists, I’m running discovery; once it does, I’m in the codebase shipping it.
On the side I build RadFlow, an AI reporting assistant for radiologists — my proof that one person can still own a whole product loop. I care about secure-by-default systems (a small CNCF/SOPS contributor), the unglamorous nanoseconds of low-latency code, and giving back to the dev community that raised me. Outside work you’ll find me on the water — surfing and kitesurfing.
Capabilities
What I actually reach for.
No invented percentages — just an honest read on where each skill sits, and what I do with it.
Core day-to-day, what I’m known for
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Fluent comfortable, ship with it
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Learning actively levelling up
Product
- Product StrategyCore
Turning a fuzzy problem into one clear, testable bet.
- Roadmapping & PrioritisationCore
Saying no to good ideas so the great one ships.
- Discovery & User ResearchFluent
I run the interviews before I write a line of code.
- Data & ExperimentationFluent
Instrument it, measure it, kill what doesn’t move the metric.
- Stakeholder LeadershipFluent
Keeping eng, design and business pointed the same way.
Engineering
- React / TypeScriptCore
My daily driver for the best part of a decade.
- Node & Go servicesCore
Where most of the backends I’ve shipped actually live.
- Kubernetes & GitOpsCore
CKA + CKAD certified; I run this in production, not just slides.
- Computer Vision / MLLearning
Enough to ship retail vision — I lean on the research team for the deep maths.
- Low-latency SystemsLearning
I respect the nanoseconds; still learning the truly deep end.
Path
Where I’ve been building.
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Feb 2025 - NowEngineer Product ManagerAiFi Inc. 路 Autonomous retail 路 Remote
Bridging product and engineering on checkout-free shopping — AI and computer vision turning physical stores into frictionless, cashier-free experiences at scale.
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2024 - NowIndependent Maker 路 side projectsRadFlow 路 Easy PT Invoice
Shipping my own products end-to-end — an AI reporting assistant for radiologists and an open-source Portuguese-invoice scanner. Product, code, infra and go-to-market, solo.
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Sep 2005 - NowSolutions Architect 路 freelanceIndependent 路 Remote
Two decades of building for clients — full-stack JS/TS & Next.js, Kubernetes and GitOps, CI/CD, and cloud infra across GCP and AWS.
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Oct 2018 - Feb 2025Sr. Technical PM / Staff Software Engineer / Team LeadGenesis Cloud 路 GPU cloud for ML & rendering 路 Lisbon / Munich
Grew from Senior to Staff Engineer to Sr. Technical PM and team lead — designing scalable, hardware-accelerated cloud systems for machine learning, VFX rendering and big-data analytics, and leading the teams that built them.
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Apr 2016 - Oct 2018Software EngineerTalkdesk 路 Cloud contact center 路 Lisbon
Engineering at a fast-scaling SF startup — named to the Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 — building real-time communication products.
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Mar 2015 - Apr 2016Software EngineerMaily 路 Kids messaging app 路 Lisbon
Built a safe, playful messaging product letting young kids stay in touch with parents, grandparents and friends.
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Aug 2011 - Mar 2015Software EngineerSAPO 路 Video streaming platform 路 Lisbon
On the SAPO Vídeos team — a video streaming platform — building VOD and live-streaming systems with Wowza, FFmpeg and high-traffic web infrastructure.
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Sep 2010 - Aug 2011ResearcherLaSIGE 路 Univ. of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences 路 Lisbon
Research at the Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory — building software across PHP, Java and C# within the Informatics Department’s research unit.
Credentials
Licenses & certifications.
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
KubernetesCloud Computing+3 skills
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