Andrea Candian
Partner at Rational Partners
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolAndrea Candian is a seasoned product and technology executive with 25 years of experience building user-centric products, scaling engineering organizations, and turning around underperforming teams. Currently a Partner at Rational Partners and serving as a fractional/interim CTO, he blends hands-on delivery experience with strategic due diligence for scale-ups and VC/PE-backed businesses. He has led large-scale modernization and consolidation programs across microservices, containerization, serverless, IaC, big data and AI, while championing Agile, DevOps and automated security and QA pipelines. Andrea has a track record of taking products from whiteboard to production quickly—once launching a multi-sided tutoring platform to market in five months—and of structuring mixed-sourcing models to meet aggressive timelines. An executive coach and team builder, he focuses on leadership development, pragmatic delivery culture and measurable productivity gains across distributed and outsourced teams. Trained with an Executive MBA from Cambridge Judge and an engineering background from University of Trento, he combines business acumen with deep technical judgment.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Executive) Judge Business School, Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Executive) Judge Business School at University of CambridgeBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology and Business Management, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology and Business Management at University of Trento
English, Italian
Github Skills (4)
network10
mouse10
synergy10
keyboard10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
idarlund/synergy-core
May 2021 - May 2021
Open source core of Synergy, the keyboard and mouse sharing tool
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
synergymousesharingkeyboard-eventskeyboard
deskflow/deskflow
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.
Contributions:79 reviews, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
synergymouse-emulationmousesharingkeyboard-emulation
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