I've dedicated most of my career to building products for companies large and small. Recently, I've been working in the intersection of AI and data. More on current focus here.

Highlights

Launched the first public app on Amazon Web Services

Co-authored Redis Cookbook for O'Reilly Media

A long time ago I was the first employee at Techcrunch

Experience

Capital Factory

August 2020 - Present

VP of Engineering at Capital Factory. Capital Factory is the most active investment fund in Texas. At CF, I'm building software and data solutions to help entrepreneurs raise capital, and investors connect with the best opportunities.

Gumroad

May 2021 - October 2021

Part-time engineering consultant for Gumroad. Gumroad helps anyone sell anything online: from their expertise to physical products. I helped with a number of projects, between revamping localization, developer experience (DX) updates and the launch of Gumroad 2.0.

Union

Acquired by Capital Factory

January 2018 - Present

Co-Founder and CTO at Union. Union is a platform that connects and helps startup programs around the world. Union is used by key industry players like 500 Startups and Capital Factory, and runs programs for brands like Comcast, Accenture and Beyer.

76fwd

Apr 2015 - January 2018

Lead engineer at 1776.vc (now 76fwd). 1776 was an incubator and seed fund out of Washington, DC, helping startups in industries such as education, energy, transportation and smart cities.

Disruption Corporation

Acquired by 76fwd

Feb 2013 - Apr 2015

Head of product and engineering at Disruption Corporation. Disruption Corp was a seed fund out of Crystal City, Washington DC. Key responsibilities at Disruption included building and managing Hubble (a startup metric tracking platform), Dashboard (a community tool used at accelerator programs such as 500 Startups and Seedcamp) as well as leading the engineering team.

Webreakstuff

Aug 2005 - Feb 2013

Founder and partner at Webreakstuff. WBS was a product and consulting company, working on its own products, as well as building products for others. Our clients included companies such as MTV and the Viacom Group, Bell Canada, PT and Microsoft, as well as a number of startups for which we helped bring ideas to market.

Techcrunch

May 2005 - Mar 2007

Full-stack engineer and writer at Techcrunch. As the first employee at Techcrunch, I helped bring the TC vision to fruition, one of my main accomplishments being bringing the readership numbers to over 1.000.000 daily readers and RSS subscribers. During my tenure at Techcrunch, I also designed the data model for what would become Crunchbase.

Published works

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

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)

2018 / Microsoft Search Champs (Seattle, US)

2007 / Barcamp Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)

2007 / Codebits (Lisbon, Portugal)

2006 / Shift Conference (Lisbon, Portugal)

2006 / Barcamp Portugal (Coimbra, Portugal)