Avelino Cavaco

• Currently responsible for leading engineering teams, processes, and projects, fostering a high-performance culture that drives innovation and delivers business value;
• Expanded the engineering team from 20 to 35 members, implementing a new organizational structure with dedicated product and project management areas, redefining processes, and strengthening cross-team collaboration which improved productivity, ownership, and time-to-market;
• Manage and grow multidisciplinary technical teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals;
• Translate business goals into engineering strategy, balancing innovation, cost efficiency, and long-term sustainability;
• Lead multiple teams (Developers, QA, PM, DevSecOps, Delivery) and build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and collaboration;
• Define and enforce architecture, technology, and security standards (e.g. OWASP, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001/27002, GDPR);
• Oversee technical consistency across teams, ensuring CI/CD, testing, and observability best practices;
• Manage complex roadmaps and projects with measurable KPIs (velocity, reliability, defect rate, time to market);
• Act as a bridge between engineering, product, and business leadership, fostering clear communication and data-driven decision-making;
• Design scalable team structures and implement standardized processes to enhance autonomy and efficiency;
• Promote innovation, knowledge sharing, and R&D initiatives that drive product differentiation;
• Fostered a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by encouraging the sharing of ideas, leading to increased creativity and problem-solving capabilities within the team;
• Promote a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement by defining and enforcing engineering best practices (CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, observability);
• Manage technical priorities to ensure a balanced approach between innovation, maintenance, implementation, and technical debt resolution;
• Ensure compliance, risk management, and successful execution of audits and technical certifications;
• Manage external vendors and represent engineering in front of clients, auditors, and strategic partners;
• Fostered an Agile engineering culture by implementing Kanban and Scrum methodologies to enhance collaboration, transparency, and delivery efficiency;
• Introduced the SaaS delivery model and led the migration of the solution to a Docker-based deployment architecture using AWS services;

• Developed and maintained enterprise architecture models leveraging frameworks such as TOGAF and ArchiMate.
• Ensured consistency and integration across business, data, application, and technology domains.
• Established architecture standards, guidelines, and governance policies.
• Produced high-level technical documentation tailored to different audiences, including executives, technical teams, and stakeholders.
• Embedded security, privacy, and compliance requirements into architecture design.
• Promoted reuse of components, frameworks, and best practices to drive efficiency and scalability.
• Identified redundancies, gaps, and inefficiencies in applications and infrastructure, recommending optimization strategies.
• Designed solutions for modern and legacy applications.
• Mentored junior architects, fostering professional growth and knowledge sharing within the team.

• Developed multiple software solutions for the retail and payment sectors, including fleet management and IoT integration;
• Focused on designing scalable and reliable systems that supported product evolution and operational growth;
• Worked with a wide range of backend and database technologies to improve performance, eliminate bottlenecks, and modernize legacy systems;
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between embedded devices, cloud platforms, and enterprise applications;
• Led the analysis, development, and maintenance of innovative web solutions for fuel station management, integrating IoT systems and payment interfaces to improve operational efficiency and user experience;
• Designed and implemented a scalable microservices-based platform with full multi-tenant support, enabling seamless onboarding of new clients without compromising performance;
• Directed the design and optimization of relational database models, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data integrity in mission-critical, high-volume environments;
• Coordinated and mentored a team of developers, promoting best practices, conducting code reviews, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration;
• Partnered with stakeholders to align technical decisions with business strategy, balancing innovation, scalability, and operational stability;

Technologies:

• Java, C#, Vaadin, GIT;
• SpringBoot, Micronaut, REST, SOAP;
• Confluence, Jira, Grafana;
• SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse;
• AWS, Docker;
• Windows, Linux, Proxmox, Embedded Systems;

• Designed and developed proprietary solutions to automate and control production processes, ensuring accurate weighing, traceability, and labeling, while reducing production time and errors;
• Implemented security policies and fault-tolerance mechanisms to improve system reliability;
• Developed and integrated EDI processes to streamline data exchange with partners;

Technologies

• C++/QT, Java;
• SQL Server, PostgreSQL;
• PHP, Symfony;
• Windows, Linux;