Career Profile

IT Director at iServices and iServicesApps, with a degree in Computer Science Engineering from FCT-UNL and 15+ years of professional experience. Bridges high-level IT strategy with hands-on technical execution — combining a full-stack engineering foundation (PHP Laravel, iOS/Android), extensive DevOps background (Terraform, Docker, Hetzner/GCP), and an applied AI practice to drive digital transformation and scale enterprise cloud infrastructures.

Enterprise Leadership & AI — Oversees IT infrastructure for a market-leading retail network of 140+ stores across Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Directs the software teams building high-growth web and mobile products, with recent focus on applied AI: designing and deploying MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to feed executive BI dashboards, and integrating LLM-based tooling to automate data collection, processing, and analytics for data-driven business decisions.

Full-Stack, DevOps & SEO — Covers the full delivery lifecycle: from backend architecture in PHP Laravel to containerised cloud deployments on Hetzner and Google Cloud, CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform. Also delivers SEO strategy and technical optimisation — site architecture, performance, crawlability — for content-heavy and e-commerce platforms.

Consulting & Enterprise Environments — Served as Mobile Team Lead for major financial institutions including BBVA and Banque Privée Espírito Santo via Closer Consulting — engineering mobile banking platforms, optimising REST architectures, and delivering secure multi-device digital products.

Outside of work, explores home automation, mechanics, 3D modelling/printing, and microcontrollers (Arduino, ESP8266, ESP32, NodeMCU).

Experiences

IT Director / Lead Developer

– Present

iServices Lda & iServicesApps, Lisbon (Portugal)

Owned end-to-end IT infrastructure and security for a retail network of 140+ stores across Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, while concurrently directing the software development division delivering web and mobile products.

  • Designed and deployed MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers integrating LLM tooling into executive BI dashboards, enabling automated data collection and AI-driven business analytics
  • Built and deployed an internal autonomous agent (Hermes) using cost-optimised LLMs (Gemini API) for E2E functional test automation and predictive monitoring of e-commerce platforms
  • Introduced agentic development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor) across the engineering team, accelerating Laravel refactoring cycles and unit test coverage
  • Led full-stack delivery of web services and portals on Laravel and Slim, from architecture to production
  • Drove SEO strategy and technical optimisation across content-heavy and e-commerce platforms — site architecture, Core Web Vitals, crawlability, and structured data
  • Managed containerised cloud infrastructure on Hetzner and GCP using Docker, Docker Registry, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform (IaC)
  • Drove performance and scalability with Redis, Memcache, Cloudflare, and CDN strategies across high-traffic platforms
  • Shipped cross-platform mobile products for iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin), including Flutter prototypes
  • Mentored and grew a team of developers, owning project planning and delivery from brief to release

Lead Developer

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Once Upon a House / Closer Consulting, Lisbon (Portugal)

Owned the architecture and delivery of a multi-frontend CMS for a hotel group, built on Laravel 5 with Linux server deployments. Led the development team, handled QA and deployment pipelines, and trained junior developers on the stack.

Lead Developer – Mobile (iOS)

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World Solid Capital / Closer Consulting, Lisbon (Portugal)

Led the mobile team end-to-end: owned UX/UI design and native iPad development in Swift and Objective-C, designed the supporting web services, and managed the full release pipeline via iTunes Connect and TestFlight.

Mobile Software Consultant – Team Lead (Android)

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BBVA Portugal / IBM / Closer Consulting, Lisbon (Portugal)

Led Android platform development for BBVA Portugal's home banking application, while contributing as an iOS developer. Owned delivery of secure, responsive multi-device banking features within an IBM-governed enterprise environment.

Mobile Software Consultant

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Closer Consulting, Lisbon (Portugal)

Delivered custom Android solutions across digital signage, OS-level resource control, and media applications — owning architecture, security design, and release for each product.

Built on REST, SQLite, WebSockets, SSL/HTTPS, JWT, and end-to-end file encryption. Key products: SmartScreen, PresenTime, Hotel IoT Controller. Clients included Cofina (Jornal de Negócios) and Millennium BCP.

Technical Training

Relevant certifications & training

MongoDB – Certification for Java and Angular implementations
Xamarin (Microsoft Portugal) – Xamarin mobile lifecycle, Analytics and monitoring, Azure
Power BI (Microsoft Portugal) – Dashboard creation and design, database connections

Skills & Proficiency

Back-end & Databases

PHP / Laravel / Slim MySQL / PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis RabbitMQ Node.js Python Go

Front-end & Mobile

HTML5 / CSS Android (Java / Kotlin) Vue.js / Angular iOS (Swift / Obj-C) Flutter

AI & LLM Tooling

MCP Server Design Claude / Claude Code Gemini API Cline / Cursor LM Studio / Hermes Prompt Engineering RAG Pipelines

DevOps & Cloud

Docker / Registry Jenkins CI/CD Hetzner / GCP Terraform (IaC) Docker Swarm Traefik Cloudflare / WAF Git SVN / TFS

SEO & Analytics

Technical SEO Core Web Vitals Structured Data Google Search Console Power BI

Other

Scrum / Agile VBA Unity SketchUp / SolidWorks

High Proficient Familiar