João Ruivo Santos

Building and launching bootstrapped AI-enabled digital products as a solo founder.

Growth engineering, highly focused on SEO. Leading business and engineering initiatives focused on improving key company metrics, like user acquisition, engagement, and revenue.

Contract role at early stage fintech startup - Greenfield project for a new digital bank product - More specialised in the Backend/Integration side of things, but with a T-Shaped role, covering all the product stack - Agile processes based on Kanban, part of a multi-disciplinary product team composed of engineers, designers, business analysts and product owner, collaborating towards an MVP - Tech Stack: Java, Dropwizard, Docker, Typescript, React, GitLab CI

Backend engineering for NOWTV and PeacockTV products: - Development of microservices for large-scale Sky and NBCUniversal products - Focus on high-availability, reliability, performance and scalability - Applying continuous deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Kubernetes - Tech Stack: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Cucumber, Gatling, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Logstash, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana Backend engineering on Sky Store OTT Video Platform: - Analysis, design and implementation across all main platform components (orders, payments, campaigns, content ingestion, catalog, video playback, user management, DRM, reporting, third-party integration) - Integrated in an Agile organisation, acted occasionally as Scrum Master - Tech Stack: HTTP, RESTful API's, C#, .NET, .NET Core, SQL Server, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Hangfire, Wiremock, Cucumber, Splunk

- Integrated in a large digital transformation project (100+ persons) on a major multinational insurance company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The project goals included replacement of the core system, services and modelling current insurance products for new ones. - Member of the frontend workstream, participated in the development of a sales desktop app for field agents. The application was implemented using WPF and included integration via WCF with core systems for obtaining quotes and activating insurance policies. - Involved in the complete project life-cycle from analysis to development and release, including coordination and mentoring of junior colleagues. - Tech Stack: .NET 4.0, C#, WPF, WCF, XAML, XML, Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft TFS, Microsoft Test Manager

- Part of the consulting team, developing custom web solutions for clients - Focused mostly on the development of custom B2C web applications in the Tourism/Travel business, including search, booking and payment of products like flights, hotels, packages, car rental, among others. - Involved as well on development and maintenance of several websites with high volume of visitors. - Direct line support for clients - Tech Stack: .NET 4.0, ASP.NET MVC 3, C#, LINQ, SQL Server, HTML, Javascript, CSS, XSLT, XML

- My first job, joined the IT department of EAD, Portuguese market leader on Document Management - Development of an intranet portal and several internal web applications for logistics and warehouse management - Development of a large custom solution for a client bank in a SaaS model. - Mostly Web development, database design, web services integrations. Documentation and training sessions for users. - Tech Stack: ASP.NET, C#, ASPX, HTML, CSS, Javascript, WebServices, AJAX, Windows Forms, Crystal Reports, Visual SourceSafe.