Hugo Serra

Lisbon, Portugal

Senior Full Stack Engineer & Team Leader @ Runtime Revolution

11 years of experience

Portfolio: hserra.dev

Blog: hserra.dev/blog

As a Full Stack Software Engineer and Team Leader at Runtime Revolution, I am deeply committed to igniting projects and guiding them to success. With extensive experience across data-heavy, large-scale projects where performance is paramount, I've mastered the art of ensuring no millisecond goes to waste and downtime remains a myth. What truly sets me apart is my innate ability to train and inspire those I work with, fostering a culture of excellence and growth throughout our team. My current hobby and obsession? Exploring the vast potential of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), harnessing their capabilities to propel my teams towards their goals with unmatched precision and speed.

Skills:

Python 6 yearsReact 6 yearsCloud Operations (CloudOps) 5 yearsTeam Management 7 years

Experience

AMS (Alexander Mann Solutions)  weareams.com

Apr 2023 to Present

Team Leader & Senior Software Engineer New York, USA

At AMS, I've been entrusted with the leadership and architectural direction of our B2B Software Review Platform. This platform serves as a valuable tool for businesses, offering them unbiased reviews, comparisons, and pricing insights. In conjunction with AMS's consulting services, we've crafted a solution that's both informative and practical. System Design: I took the lead in designing the system architecture, ensuring it aligned with industry best practices and our specific needs. One of my proudest moments was successfully integrating the CMS with our main product, a step that enabled us to offer more targeted content suggestions to our users. Team Leadership: As the lead of a 14-member team, I helped navigate our workflow using Agile & Scrum methodologies, incorporating Kanban for certain product development stages. My role also extended to the hiring realm, where I played a part in recruiting and interviewing potential team members. Technological Implementation: Cloud/Infrastructure: With a focus on robustness, I guided our team to effectively utilize Azure's suite, including Docker, PostgreSQL, Azure Cloud Functions, among others. Backend Development: My expertise in Python, Django, and other technologies informed our backend decisions and strategies. Frontend Development: I steered our frontend development, choosing a mix of TypeScript, React, Next.js, and other tools to ensure a responsive and user-friendly interface. Our vision is broad, and with the platform's design accommodating scalability, we're poised to support a growing user base.

Runtime Revolution  runtime-revolution.com

Mar 2021 to Present

Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader Lisbon, Portugal

Working with clients to build amazing products and deliver great experiences. As well as participate in the selection of candidates and training of new developers at Runtime.

  • Started a new project with a client

Nexamp  nexamp.com

Oct 2022 to Jun 2023

Team Leader & Senior Software Engineer Boston, USA

Helped the client create processes and an team to migrate an existing product written in Ruby to Python. The main focus was implementing swiftly with a high quality standard, both of which we achieved very successfully. The main tools for the job were Python, Django, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, React, Redux, React Query (migrated from redux), Azure Cloud.

Zettlor  zettlor.com

Feb 2022 to Sep 2022

Lead Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Taking the lead in creating a platform that will allow new ways for Companies, Creators and People to interact. Built with Next.js, Python and Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS

Worldbox Business Intelligence  worldbox.net

Mar 2021 to Mar 2022

Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader Lisbon, Portugal

Developed a scalable, performant and highly configurable and agnostic platform for data ingestion and processing. Built with Python and Django, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Docker, AWS, and React. Also trained and lead the team responsible for the ongoing of the project

  • Lead the development of an MVP proof of concept for a new platform which ultimately lead to the company starting it's launch some months later
  • Helped mentor and assist multiple teams geographically dispersed around the world

Worldbox Business Intelligence  worldbox.net

Apr 2020 to Mar 2021

Senior Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Developed a scalable, performant and highly configurable and agnostic platform for data ingestion and processing. Built with Python and Django, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Docker, AWS, and React

  • Improved client's platform performance from processing jobs in several days/weeks to a few hours/minutes. This allowed to tackle much higher volume jobs
  • Started to automate most of the processes the client has running for their business, as well as allowing these processes to be configured by the client

Runtime Revolution  runtime-revolution.com

Mar 2020 to Mar 2021

Senior Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Worked with clients as a Senior Software Engineer

Alter Solutions Portugal  alter-solutions.com

Jul 2018 to Mar 2020

Senior Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Worked as a Nearshore Consultant and team leader for the Stellantis Group and as a Consultant for SIBS Processos

SIBS Processos  sibs.com

Aug 2019 to Feb 2020

Senior Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Worked with PHP, Python and Javascript to perform payments platform integrations in multiple providers

Stellantis  stellantis.com

Jul 2018 to Jul 2019

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead Lisbon, Portugal

Full Stack Web Development using Laravel, MariaDB and Angular. Worked on projects to manage the manufacturing and documentation production. I also was responsible for the latter project and did some mentoring.

sympl  gosympl.com

Oct 2017 to Jun 2018

Software Engineer Antwerp, Belgium

Full Stack Web Development using Laravel, MariaDB/MongoDB, Vue.js and ElasticSearch

  • Developed a bot framework to perform recruitment over chat
  • Developed the recruitment algorithm and framework for the website

BOLD by Devoteam  bold.devoteam.com

Apr 2016 to Jun 2018

Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Worked in Consulting for 1 clients, one of them in a nearshore model

SAPO  sapo.pt

Apr 2016 to Sep 2017

Software Engineer Lisbon, Portugal

Full Stack Web Development for Sapo Voucher. Android development. Technologies: PHP, Codeigniter, Ink (by Sapo), Prototype.js, Javascript, Java.

CrowdPlanners

Oct 2015 to Apr 2017

Lead Web Developer Lisbon, Portugal

Had the leading role in the development of the SaaS product the company was developing, in PHP with Laravel and Javascript.

OLX Group  olxgroup.com

Oct 2015 to Mar 2016

Software Developer Lisbon, Portugal

Full Stack development in PHP and Javascript in a B2B Platform for the real estate market

  • Participated in the development of a key B2B platform for the company

Gatewit  gatewit.com

Mar 2015 to Sep 2015

Software Developer Lisbon, Portugal

Full-Stack development with PHP, Symfony1.4/2, JQuery, Javascript

  • Got the company to start migrating projects to Git
  • Implemented SSL for some of the communication that the platforms performed

WeDo Technologies  mobileum.com

Jun 2013 to Feb 2015

Consultant Lisbon, Portugal

Development of Business Assurance and Incentives Management projects for clients in Asia and the Middle East

YDreams Robotics

Nov 2012 to Nov 2013

Network Engineering Trainee Almada, Portugal

Develop a Master's Thesis on Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Smart Robotics and Machine Learning.

TNMC - SOLUÇÕES DE INFORMÁTICA, Lda  tnmc.pt

Jun 2007 to Jul 2007

IT Technician Trainee Lisbon, Portugal

Configuring Software and Installing Systems. Repairing computers.

Education

Instituto Superior Tecnico  tecnico.ulisboa.pt

2011 to 2013

Master's of Science, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Seminários IST-Tagus 2011

Instituto Superior Tecnico  tecnico.ulisboa.pt

2007 to 2012

Bachelor's of Science, Telecomunications and Informatics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Seminários IST-Tagus 2010

Certificates

BSc in Telecomunications and Informatics Engineering

Insituto Superior tecnico
May 2012

Volunteer

Neurolandia  neurolandia.pt

May 2021 to Oct 2023

Tech Support and Web Developer Faro, Portugal

Publications

Internet of Intelligent Things: Bringing Artificial Intelligence in Things and Communication Networks

Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Aug 2013

Languages

English Full Professional ProficiencyPortuguese NativeSpanish Limited Working ProficiencyFrench Elementary Proficiency

Interests

Programming