Carlos Soares
Co-Founder & CTO Licensed Insurance Broker (EU) at TEKSOMA
Loulé, Portugal
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Top SchoolCarlos Soares is a technology and reliability leader with 12+ years of experience building cloud-native, SRE, and automation practices for enterprises and startups. As Founder & Principal Consultant at CMPSOARES and Co-Founder & CTO of InsurTech TEKSOMA, he blends CTO-level strategy with hands-on architecture—designing scalable SaaS platforms using Terraform, GCP, Next.js, Supabase/PlanetScale and LLM-assisted workflows. He has led transformations for brands like Toyota Europe, Siemens, Odido and Old Mutual, delivering measurable reliability improvements (e.g., >60% downtime reduction and 65% faster MTTR) and turning reactive operations into data-driven reliability ecosystems. A licensed EU insurance broker, he uniquely couples regulatory and compliance insight with engineering rigor to modernise brokerage and document-audit automation. Known for practical, outcome-focused advisory, he engages directly with C-level teams to align technology strategy with business impact while keeping delivery velocity high. Based in Loulé, Portugal, he secured PRR startup funding to take TEKSOMA from concept to funded MVP, demonstrating both product-market focus and executional discipline.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Engineering at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de LisboaBachelor's degree IT Engineer, Bachelor's degree IT Engineer at Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira GomesHigh School Science, High School Science at Escola Secundária Poeta António Aleixo
Portuguese, Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (141)
python10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
computer-science10
monitoring10
javascript10
chatgpt10
linux10
sql10
ai10
html10
graphing10
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Github contributions (5)
cmpsoares/label-based-pr-policy-action
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
This is a Github Action that validates the required minimum number of approving reviews and/or Check-runs on a Pull Request depending on the set of labels applied to it, or alternatively on the default values.
Contributions:1 release, 92 commits, 4 PRs in 20 days
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cmpsoares91/cmpsoares.me
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
Personal website built with Hugo
Contributions:13 PRs, 158 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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