Porto, Portugal — available to talk
Helping build teams
that build good software.
I'm Ricardo — Team Lead at Visma Tech Center Porto, working on e-conomic. Sixteen years in, my job has shifted from writing every line to making sure the right lines get written, by people who want to be there.
- In IT since
- 2010
- Years of experience
- 16
- Companies
- 5
- Countries worked in
- 5
About
From the problem
to the engineering.
I've been working in IT since 2010, driven by a fairly simple goal: seeing how technology actually improves real life. The path went from hands-on full-stack development in healthcare and Industry 4.0 into technical leadership — not because I stopped enjoying the code, but because the hardest problems stopped being code-shaped.
Great software is built by great people. Most of what I do now is bridging the gap between complex technical decisions and the team culture that has to carry them — architecture conversations on Monday, career conversations on Tuesday, and a pull request somewhere in between.
Today that means managing a distributed development team at Visma Tech Center Porto — with people in Denmark and Romania alongside Portugal — and helping shape where cloud accounting and payroll go next at e-conomic.
Where the work has reached
Based in Porto, with two years on the ground in Brazil, a project on site in Wales, and a team spread across three countries today.
Off the clock
- TravelNew places, ideally with a coastline
- FootballPlaying it and arguing about it
- Fishing & spearfishingSomewhere along the coast north of Porto
- Being a fatherEasily the best job I've had
Experience
Sixteen years,
five companies, one through-line.
- Jun 2023 — PresentVI
Team Lead · Visma — e-conomic
I manage a distributed software development team inside Visma Tech Center Porto, with engineers in Denmark and Romania as well as Portugal. I own the technical direction of our initiatives — architecture, infrastructure, code health — and act as a partner in dialogue with the other tech leads and the management team on approach and planning.
- Leading a team spread across three countries and time zones
- Scaling the team and the practices that keep it coherent as it grows
- Driving architecture and infrastructure initiatives end to end
- Refactoring and optimising established codebases for speed and scale
- Mentoring and coaching engineers; still shipping features myself
- Aug 2020 — Jun 2023AD
Lead Software Engineer · Adapttech
Defined and built the software solutions and architecture behind Adapttech's existing and new products, and led the engineering team — putting engineering and architecture practice in place across several projects at once.
- May 2019 — Aug 2020CM
Senior Software Engineer · Critical Manufacturing
Requirements, architecture, development and test mastery on the Critical Manufacturing MES platform. .NET across the board, Angular on the front, SQL Server underneath.
- May 2018 — May 2019FF
Full-Stack Developer · FUJIFILM
Built Clinical Workflow Manager for radiology and endoscopy — requirements through architecture, development and support. ASP.NET and Angular over PostgreSQL. Part of the work ran as a project in Wales, on site with the customer.
- Mar 2010 — May 2018GL
Glintt HealthCare Solutions 8 yrs 3 mos
The formative eight years. I joined as an R&D developer and left as a solutions design consultant, having spent two of those years living in Brazil implementing BI&A for Unimed Vitória and Vita Volta Redonda.
- IT Solutions Design ConsultantJun 2017 — Apr 2018 · concept systems, quotations, proposals for national and international markets
- R&D Integration DeveloperJan 2017 — May 2017 · clinical interfaces between GlobalCare and third parties — FHIR, HL7, WCF, REST
- BI&A and Technology ConsultantJan 2015 — Dec 2016 · Vitória, Brazil — full BI&A implementation, installation to key-user training
- R&D Microsoft DeveloperMar 2010 — May 2018 · HL7 interoperability, prescription systems, authorisation (SGA), the CEDIME drug catalog, and a long tail of clinical modules
Toolkit
What I reach for.
Deep in the Microsoft stack, comfortable everywhere else. Listed by how often I actually use it, not by how good it looks on a CV.
Leadership
Backend
Frontend
Cloud & platform
Data
Domain standards
Where those years went
Credentials
Education
- 2016 — 2017 Master's degree, Graphic & Multimedia Systems ISEP — Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Thesis: Virtual Driver — a traffic sign recognition system for Portuguese roads.
- 2015 openEHR — Introduction to the openEHR Standard Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto Concepts, archetypes and templates for clinical information standards.
- 2007 — 2011 Licentiate degree, Computer Engineering Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
- 2004 — 2007 Informatics Technological Course Escola Secundária de Valongo
Certifications
- AzAzure FundamentalsMicrosoft Certified
- MCSASolutions AssociateMicrosoft Certified
- MCSDSolution DeveloperMicrosoft Certified
- 483Programming in C#Microsoft Exam
- 487Azure & Web ServicesMicrosoft Exam
- FCEFirst CertificateCambridge English
Languages
- PortugueseNative
- EnglishProfessional working
Contact
Let's talk.
Hiring, building a team, or just want to compare notes on leading engineers — the inbox is open and I answer it myself.