about
I engineer backend systems, developer tooling, and distributed infrastructure — things that hold up at scale.
Currently at LessonUp (via 25Friday), an EdTech platform used by teachers across Europe. I happen to also care about people, so I mentor engineers and help teams grow.
I like clean APIs, strong types, gRPC, and good coffee. Not necessarily in that order.
experience
Porto, Portugal (remote)
- –Leading engineering team building a collaborative EdTech platform used by teachers across Europe.
- –Driving technical direction, architecture decisions, and engineering quality standards.
- –Mentoring engineers, running code reviews, and aligning cross-functional stakeholders on delivery.
Porto, Portugal
- –Led engineering team building a high-performance white-label ad serving platform.
- –Drove technical roadmap and architecture for a distributed, high-throughput advertising system.
- –Established engineering standards, mentored senior engineers, and aligned product with engineering delivery.
Braga, Portugal
- –Developed features for an enterprise application security platform scanning code across 75+ languages.
- –Contributed to static analysis (SAST) tooling and developer-facing security integrations.
- –Worked in a globally distributed team shipping security tooling used by Apple, Salesforce, and Visa.
// it started earlier than this — web dev trainee in 2010, wrangling jQuery && PHP 5.3 ↗
projects
gRPC-fundamentals
↗Technical presentation and demo covering gRPC core concepts — service definitions, streaming, and client/server patterns in TypeScript.
clickhouse-datawarehouse-sample
↗Docker-based setup for a ClickHouse data warehouse environment. A local dev reference for columnar storage and analytics workloads.
unit-testing-workshop
↗Backend workshop materials covering unit testing practices in PHP — patterns, mocking strategies, and test design principles.
skills
contact
I'm not actively looking, but I'm always up for interesting conversations.