Summary
Hugo Ferreira is a founder and software architect with 8+ years of professional experience building SaaS products from Portugal, leading SolidSoft in delivering niche management solutions for condominiums, building maintenance and email management. He blends a hands-on engineering background in .NET, Flex/AS3, Java and SQL Server with product-focused architecture, having moved from early developer roles into company leadership. Hugo has a long trajectory of shipping enterprise and web systems—starting in VB/Access and evolving through ASP.NET WebForms and modern architectures—so he understands legacy lift-and-shift as well as new feature delivery. He has contributed to Apache Royale as a committer and served on its PMC, demonstrating active engagement in open-source governance beyond his commercial work. Comfortable toggling between code, architecture and business strategy, he is pragmatic about turning domain-specific requirements into scalable SaaS offerings. Based in Portugal, he combines technical depth with entrepreneurial drive and an eye for operationalising software for property and facility management.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduation, Engineering, Graduation, Engineering at Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal - Politécnico de Setúbal
Portuguese, English