Provided hands-on senior technical leadership and architectural governance across 3 software delivery teams. Orchestrated technical integration and growth of 120+ engineers, helped design career progression matrices, transitioned legacy monoliths into autonomous agile squads, removed bottlenecks, reduced technical debt, and supported direct reports while coaching future technical leaders. Established engineering governance and promoted AI-assisted development workflows.

Architected and oversaw delivery of a sensitive production system replacement under tight timelines. Contributed directly with high-performance Golang and serverless backend systems, introduced structured agile delivery loops and career ladders, and partnered with product and design to improve priorities and feature stability.

Led a cross-functional agile squad delivering IoT and data-intensive cloud services. Architected event-driven integrations using AWS Kinesis, Streams, Firehose, and Lambda, transitioned services to Java/Spring Boot, introduced Terraform infrastructure-as-code, chaired the global Java Chapter, and championed security, testing, and CI/CD maturity.

Built and managed a software team from scratch for a sports ticketing and analytics platform. Designed scalable AWS architecture, handled high transaction volumes, standardized BDD/TDD quality loops, and aligned a multi-disciplinary stack across Angular, React, Node.js, and Java Spring.

Held software engineering and consulting positions in Lisbon, The Hague, and Bristol. Gained deep production experience in Java SE/EE, Spring, Hibernate/JPA, SQL, Oracle DB, and Linux.