Consulting Porto or remote

I've seen what sinks startups. Let's skip that part.

Over 10 years I've worked in very different cultures: a hosting company I founded and sold, a navigation company, a contact-centre scale-up, a pricing startup, and a crypto exchange. I've watched the same mistakes and the same wins happen in all of them. I help you get the wins without paying for the mistakes.

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André Freitas explaining something by the Douro river, with the Luís I bridge behind him

How I can help

Three ways to work together

Engineering advisor

For startups with a team that needs to ship faster, with fewer bugs.

Architecture reviews before the expensive decisions
Building the team: hiring bar, interview loop, sitting in on interviews
Delivery pipelines with quality built in: CI/CD, automated tests, release automation
Finding where defects come from and closing the gap

Done before: I've been part of young teams that grew into mature ones. I've worked through many flavours of agile, from shipping several times a day to bureaucracy that kept anything from shipping. I know which habits help a team grow up and which ones slow it down.

High-availability hosting

For sites that need to take more traffic and stay up. On AWS, Google Cloud, Hetzner or your own servers.

Servers created by code, not by hand: Terraform and Ansible
Kubernetes with zero-downtime deploys
Monitoring you own: open source, no vendor lock-in
A setup your team can run without me

Done before: built NDrive's infrastructure from scratch.

Fractional CTO

For founders who are just starting and don't have a technical co-founder yet.

Stack and architecture choices you won't regret in a year
Your first engineering hires
Roadmap versus tech debt, decided on purpose
A technical voice in the room with partners and investors

Done before: founded a hosting company and sold it.

How it works

Start small, keep what works