Abel Soares is a pragmatic engineering leader and CTO with 14–15 years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud-native products and developer tooling. As co-founder and current CTO of Untile, he blends product-focused engineering with strong infrastructure skills—from Node.js and React to Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS—to ship delightful, reliable software. He has repeatedly scaled teams and practices across startups and senior engineering roles, emphasizing quality, curiosity and effective development methodologies. A background in computer graphics and ubiquitous/mobile computing gives him a systems-minded approach to UX and performance that informs both architecture and developer experience. Based in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, Abel pairs entrepreneurial grit from several founding roles with deep operational know-how in DevOps and distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Graphics / Ubiquitous and mobile computing, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Graphics / Ubiquitous and mobile computing at Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Graphics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Graphics at Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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