PA Leadership Coaching

I help Tech executives and leaders in Engineering and Product upgrade themselves, how they work, serve others, and create value in the world.

Leadership Coach

Inflow

Inflow's mission is to equip people with ADHD with the skills and support they need to reach their full potential.

I coach a number of folks across the org in their leadership development and in expanding their thinking to better cope with the complexity of day to day work.

Resident Leadership Coach

My role as Fractional CTO was focused on helping set Inflow up for success as the company grows: coaching and mentoring talented people, and to setup scalable processes across recruiting, software development process, and continuous improvement.

Fractional CTO

Hotjar

Hotjar is the Product Experience Insights software of choice for small and medium businesses.

I coach a number of engineering, product and UX leaders across the organization to be at their best when their best is needed.

Sharpist

Sharpist is the outcome-driven digital platform for people development that pays in on your KPIs by growing your employees with the power of coaching and personalized learning plans.

VP of Engineering

TourRadar

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for growing and nurturing the Engineering organization, along with its budget planning. Scaling up the company on the back of its series C round.

Doubled the team size within a year, to ~50 engineers, through a systematic, scalable and predictable hiring process, while increasing development and deployment velocity/frequency 3x.

Setting a clear direction and objectives for the team, communicating these effectively, and facilitating collaboration with different stakeholders across departments.

For a period of 4 months, led the Product org in addition to Engineering adopting a more structured, predictable and experimentation-based product development process.

VP of Engineering & Interim VP of Product

HelloFresh

(IPO: Frankfurt Stock Exchange 2017)

Responsible for driving and helping accomplish a long-term technical vision for a number of customer-facing teams. Aligning with the business and product vision of the company, empowering a fantastic and ever-growing group of engineers, and removing impediments to flow.

Heavily involved in engineering hiring, helping teams efficiently onboard new engineers, and coaching engineering managers in growing and nurturing their respective teams and individuals.

Director Of Engineering

Tasked with building a team for supporting and developing internal CRM technology. Being essentially a greenfield space at HelloFresh at the time, it led to the development of a modern event-driven architecture enabling us to tap real-time data fed into our CRM platform.

Engineering Manager

Architecting and develop a new Data Warehousing solution for the growing business. Hadoop, Apache Spark, etc.

Data Engineer

Architecting and developing the payments backend and integration with external payment service providers.

Senior Software Engineer

Sports Interactive

Portuguese localization of the market-leading football management simulation game Football Manager (formerly known as Championship Manager)

Translator

Universidade de Évora

- Backend development and maintenance of the University's Online Information System; 
- Design and implementation of integration mechanisms between the University's Online Information System and its counterpart Financial application;
- Design and implementation of public access APIs to the University's Online Information System, for use by external apps (kiosks, mobile platforms, etc) in different contexts.

Software Developer

LOUD! Magazine

Interviews, feature articles and album reviews for a leading Portuguese widespread metal music magazine.

Writer

InfluAds

Front and backend development of a PHP/Zend Framework based, MySQL/MongoDB driven, web app for use by the Influads network of publishers and advertisers.

Developer

Former VP Eng • Leadership Coach • I help you get in control of your work so it doesn’t control you.

🚀 Coach for tech leaders at all levels looking to step it up, and do well while doing good. If that's you, and you feel like someone who can expand your thinking could be handy, DM me. Let's chat!

🧠 Former engineering executive, manager and software developer, manager. Leadership, management and organizations through the lenses of complexity, systems, and how the brain works.

👹 The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world it’s either people or profit.

Paulo André

I work at the intersection of building software and developing people. Over the years, I’ve built backend systems, led high-performing teams, and coached hundreds of stellar engineers and leaders.

I’m obsessed with turning potential into performance — for both systems and humans. That’s been the through-line of my career: whether I’m scaling infrastructure, guiding a team through complex tradeoffs, or helping someone step into leadership with confidence, I focus on growth and results.

My track record includes shipping products at Google, Uber, and startups, while also coaching hundreds of engineers and leaders to strengthen their leadership, communication, and impact.

What I’ve learned is simple: technical excellence and human development fuel each other. The best systems are built by teams who feel safe, clear, and challenged to grow. That’s the kind of work I do, and the environments I help create.

📩 thecaringtechie@gmail.com


Irina Stanescu

I’ve supported hundreds of engineers and leaders with various ambitious goals, and the difference between those who make it and those who don’t isn’t talent or effort. It’s something most people have never heard of: macro focus.

Most people who pick me as a coach want more. More scope, more recognition, more impact. They’re smart, competent, and have a lot of potential. They have big ambitions, yet somehow, something is missing, and they feel stuck.

Wanting more is the easy part. What’s harder is figuring out what exactly you want, how to get there, and committing to it long enough to see results.

My obsession with performance psychology (from entrepreneurs to athletes to Formula 1 drivers) has taught me that most people think focus means concentrating, productivity hacks or to-do lists. But that’s just micro-focus. Macro-focus is something entirely different.

It's getting super clear on a direction and committing to it long enough to see it through. Being ruthless about what you won't do, and being deliberate and rational about pivoting. Easier said than done.

Learn the 5 patterns that sabotage macro-focus (and how to fix them) in my latest article: https://lnkd.in/eWHMjQny

♻️ Please repost if you found this useful

Staff Software Engineer • Tech Lead Manager • High Performance Career Coach • Ex-Google, Ex-Uber

Open article: The Missing Ingredient in Your Ambitious Goals: Macro Focus by open.substack.com

The Missing Ingredient in Your Ambitious Goals: Macro Focus

Coding agents, review agents, testing agents, documentation agents - some are 10x multipliers, others are burning money, and you can't tell which.
That's the gap in every AI strategy.

While orgs are tracking adoption rates and counting PRs, the real questions go unanswered:
→ Which agents actually improve velocity vs. creating busy work?
→ What do engineers REALLY think about these agents?
→ How do leaders tell the board if that $2M AI investment is paying off?

After analyzing millions of PRs, here's what we know: AI-assisted development jumped from 14% to 51% in one year. Cycle times dropped ~16%.

But that's the average. The reality? Some teams are thriving with AI agents. Others are drowning in bad suggestions and context switching.
You need to know which is which.

That's why Jellyfish is leading the innovation in measuring AI impact - going beyond simple adoption metrics to give you the complete picture. Their latest AI Impact features include:

⬩Autonomous Agent Insights - Finally see what all your agents are actually doing across the SDLC

⬩Developer Insights - Understand sentiment beyond adoption metrics (spoiler: adoption ≠ happiness)

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The days of guessing about AI ROI are over.

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P.S. The same AI agent can be a multiplier for one team and a distraction for another. Without the right data, you'll never know which

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