Experience

Capital Factory

August 2020 - Present

VP of Engineering at Capital Factory, the most active investment fund in Texas, with key investments in companies such as Apptronik, Icon, Colossal Biosciences, Keen AGI, Saronic, among others. Building software and data solutions to connect entrepreneurs with capital and investors with opportunities.

Gumroad

May 2021 - October 2021

Part-time engineering consultant at Gumroad. Contributed to the launch of Gumroad 2.0, as well as major improvements to the developer experience and platform localization.

Union

January 2018 - August 2020

Acquired by Capital Factory

Co-Founder and CTO of Union, a platform connecting startup programs worldwide. Clients included Techstars, 500 Startups, Capital Factory, Walmart, Comcast, Accenture, Bayer, and the United States Department of Defense. Union was acquired by Capital Factory in 2020.

76fwd

Apr 2015 - January 2018

Lead engineer at 1776.vc (now 76fwd), a DC-based incubator and seed fund focused on education, energy, transportation, and smart cities.

Disruption Corporation

Feb 2013 - Apr 2015

Acquired by 76fwd

Head of product and engineering at Disruption Corporation, a seed fund in Washington, DC. Led the engineering team and built Hubble (startup metrics platform) and Dashboard (a community tool for accelerator programs like 500 Startups and Seedcamp).

O'Reilly Media Conferences

2007 - 2009

Member of the advisory board for O'Reilly Conferences Europe, including the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo and OSCON.

Webreakstuff

Aug 2005 - Feb 2013

Founder partner of Webreakstuff, a product and consulting company. Built products for MTV/Viacom, Bell Canada, Portugal Telecom, Microsoft, and numerous startups, while also developing our own.

Techcrunch

May 2005 - Mar 2007

Full-stack engineer and writer at Techcrunch. As the first employee, I helped grow readership to over 1,000,000 daily readers and RSS subscribers, and launched what would become Crunchbase.

Published

Redis Cookbook

2011 - O'Reilly

Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.

Smashing Book

2009 - Smashing Magazine

Design work for Goplan, a project management application built with Ruby on Rails at Webreakstuff featured in the first book by Smashing Magazine - Smashing Book #1 -, as an example of great design. Particular highlighted features included the sign-up and login flows. Goplan has been around since 2006, and has been featured in magazines like Wired and .net.

.net Magazine

2007 - Future Publishing

Article on the Expert Opinion section of .Net Magazine about the potential and some of the most interesting uses for APIs, included in .Net's special issue on the inner workings of Google, and Web 2.0.

Speaking / conferences

2025 / LisbonAI (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025 / Laika Ventures Orbit #3 (Porto, Portugal)
2025 / Laika Ventures Orbit #1 (Porto, Portugal)
2023 / DeHouse Braga Launch (Braga, Portugal)
2018 / Techfestival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2017 / Lisbon Challenge (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 / Lisbon Challenge (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016 / Protechting (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015 / Lisbon Challenge (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 / Seedcamp Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012 / PT Innovation Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011 / Startup Pirates (Koln, Germany)
2011 / Startup Pirates (Porto, Portugal)
2010 / Pensar Fora da Caixa (Coimbra, Portugal)
2010 / Codebits (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010 / Switch Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010 / TEDxYouth (Porto, Portugal)
2009 / Arrisca Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2009 / Barcamp Spring (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009 / Filling the Void (Lisbon, Portugal)
2008 / Shift Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2008 / Reboot 10 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2008 / O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo (Berlin, Germany)
2007 / Reboot 9 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2007 / Tecnonov (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007 / O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo (Berlin, Germany)
2007 / O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo (San Francisco, US)
2007 / Microsoft Search Champs (Seattle, US)
2007 / Barcamp Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)
2007 / Codebits (Lisbon, Portugal)
2006 / Shift Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)
2006 / Barcamp Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)