Ana Oliveira

At Verbz, I’ve taken the challenge to join the kickstart of its product development in Lisbon. I was responsible for the structure, delivery, and well-being of Verbz Engineering while guaranteeing its alignment with Product and Business goals. With a small startup team, my daily tasks came from different domains, switching from strategic to operational focus constantly. Some of my activities were: - Lead the definition of company-wide product delivery processes - Participate in the product roadmap and goals definition (and its constant mutation) - Responsible for the tech roadmap definition - Define development cycle processes (SDLC) and development and quality standards - Implementation of agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban - Participate in epics definition through their lifecycle - Hiring and onboarding tech people - Nurture tech team members by giving/receiving regular feedback and supporting their growth and education opportunities - Propose, mediate, and plan architectural changes and improvements - Oversee and improve delivery performance and quality - Reporting to c-level and investors, involving stakeholder management at all levels - Being involved in the company communication flow processes What’s Verbz? Verbz is a voice-first productivity app for business leaders and ‘deskless’ professionals. We enable users to conversationally task, remind, or share insights with their teams instantly throughout the day. We help you work faster during the day, so you have less to catch up on at night. #2 Product of the Day - Product Hunt

Member of the company’s group responsible of creating an annual “Company Performance Review” report (focused on topics as financial, market, management & organization, business process and service/product performance) and to identify and prioritize what should be the focus of the company for the year.

I have assembled and managed several distributed teams, in its peak with 15 to 20 people working in different products. I took part on the hiring of new team members and definition of team composition, mentored and coached team leads or other members of the teams. I was responsible for their career development by helping set individual objectives and by providing or evangelizing initiatives for their growth, such as internal knowledge sharing, public presentations and talks or access to conferences and certifications on their area of expertise. The most important behaviors I try to cultivate in my teams are: - collaboration and teamwork - autonomy with a purpose or common goal - continuous improvement while focused on delivering results. I also guided and supported technological decisions on architectural topics, stack, monitoring, scale and testing. These approaches resulted in team members promoted to senior roles, pro-active teams focused on problem solving and high performance autonomous teams with proven results.

Lead the development and support of several projects, from Fintech SaaS B2B Platforms to B2C Entertainment Products, most with constantly growing user bases and weekly product changes, that served 3M active users over the world. My responsibilities ranged from maintaining a healthy and productive development environment to guaranteeing delivery and availability of the systems by working on the following topics: - Team culture – motivation, team building, team work and collaboration - Team development – mentoring, coaching and training developers of the team - Team performance – defining and tweaking processes and optimizing how we do things - Development – implementing new features and systems, refactor and writing tests - Support production systems - Monitoring, handle security breaches and attacks and debug production issues - Software Quality – defining quality standards, metrics and implementing quality assurance procedures - Architecture – improving application's internal architecture or scaling the overall systems - Product and stakeholders - coordinate work between QA, DevOps, R&D and Product teams and on-boarding new members For more details see my LinkedIn project section. Stack/Keywords: Scala, PlayFramework, Slick, Anorm, Akka, akka-http, JVM, SQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Web application, JavaScript, API, AWS, RDS, S3, SQS, CloudFront(CDN), Heroku, New Relic, Kamon.io, Git, Gitflow, CI/CD, Docker, Unix, Circle CI, Bamboo, Jenkins, Postman, Selenium, Kanban, Scrum, Jira, Confluence, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Lagom.

Member of the group responsible for the overall conference organisation, having dealt with roadmap, budgeting, logistics, marketing and community management. Also in charge of the speakers, content and line-up, working with my amazing tech team to give the audience the best learnings and experience in this event.

Developed and supported several games, from physics games to real-time multiplayer games, that were used by more than 1M daily users. My roles in these ranged from tech leading, development of new features, support of released applications, gameplay programming, UI programming, client-server networking, third-party integrations and meeting with the different stakeholders for the planning of development and project definition. I was involved in the full development cycle of several mobile applications, from initial prototype and planning into release, having dealt with all the CI processes and app packaging and submission. I was also involved in developing internal libraries that were used in several other projects to allow seamless integration of different third-party services such as social networks, analytics and advertisement providers. I was always keen to improve the way we did things and was part of the group of people who evangelized the use of certain technologies and that took part on the improvement of the internal processes and architecture. Working in Miniclip was important as it allowed me to work on big projects, with several different teams and stakeholders. Since I started, the company grew from 20 to 80+ employees, giving me the opportunity to grow while working with people of distinct backgrounds and goals, which was an extremely rewarding experience. It also showed me the growing pains of companies and the importance of data and iteration on the daily business. Stack/Keywords: Objective-C, Python, Java, C++, ProtocolBuffers, Cocos2D, Box2D, JSON, Jenkins, Unix, Shell Script, TCP/UDP protocols, Git, Scrum, Jira, Confluence Team Size: 2 to 5

Developed GravityGuy2, a physics game, until release and supported several other games, including Fragger, MonsterIsland, etc. My roles ranged from development of new features and support of released applications while being a part of a cross-functional scrum team. Also implemented a few prototypes, helping the definition of the next titles to be released by the company. Stack: Objective-C, Python, Cocos2D, Box2D, SVN, Unix, Shell Script, Scrum

My first professional challenge was to be the single developer of a small startup that wanted to specialize on iOS development. During that year I was responsible for publishing 2 titles, a social network client and a physics game. I had full autonomy on all technical aspects and worked alongside the art and game designer of the company on the definition of both products. Stack: Objective-C, UIKit, Facebook API, Facebook FQL, JSON, Cocos2D, Box2D, XCode4, TexturePacker, Hiero, ParticleDesigner, Git, Tower

Software Engineering - Software Quality - Software Architectures Distributed Systems - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Network and Computer Security Multimedia Systems - 3d Simulation and Game Programming - Game Design and Development

- Engineering knowledge - Software engineering - System's design - Basic computer knowledge (such as operating systems, different programming paradigms and languages, distributed systems, databases) - Basic management knowledge