Summary
Fábio Maia is a product-focused technology leader with 13 years of experience delivering end-to-end solutions across gaming, finance, health and social domains, currently shaping product strategy at Critical TechWorks. He combines a deep engineering background (Master’s in Computer Science) with delivery leadership—having progressed from principal engineer and founder to Head of Development and product manager—so he fluently bridges technical execution, agile teams, and business outcomes. He has led distributed teams across London, Porto, Madrid and Malta, driving OKR-led roadmaps, agile transformations and complex lifecycles including legacy sunsetting and continuity planning. Currently completing an International MBA and exploring entrepreneurship, he pairs strategic business training with postgrads in cybersecurity and project management to mitigate risk while accelerating innovation. Notable for restructuring remote engineering organizations and maintaining delivery through change, he brings a global, pragmatic mindset and a knack for turning ambiguous problems into measurable product impact.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Cybersecurity, Postgraduate Degree Cybersecurity at Coimbra Business School | ISCAC
Digital Project & Process Management, Digital Project & Process Management at EDIT. - Disruptive Digital Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration and Management General at Porto Business School
Entrepreneurship & Smart Mobility, Entrepreneurship & Smart Mobility at ESCP Business School
Master's degree in Computer Science & Engineering, Master's degree in Computer Science & Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish