Summary
Hugo Ferreira is a senior engineering manager and seasoned software generalist with over 25 years in IT and 15 years in leadership roles, now leading engineering at NewStore from Lisbon. He blends hands-on engineering, architecture and people leadership, having driven developer experience, domain strategy and XP practices across Springer Nature’s Content Acquisition domain. Hugo has founded and run product-focused shops, led integration and OutSystems practices, and consistently champions observability, TDD, CI/CD and blameless postmortems to improve team velocity and resilience. He is comfortable moving between strategic domain architecture and day-to-day delivery, enabling teams to decommission legacy systems and unlock new product opportunities. Known as a “treble dad” on GitHub, he pairs practical engineering with community-building—founding hubs, mentoring engineers and fostering knowledge sharing across Lisbon’s tech scene.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Programming and Computer Science, Programming and Computer Science at Escola Secundária de Leal da Câmara (Rio de Mouro)
Licentiate (Pre-Bologna) Computer Engineering, Licentiate (Pre-Bologna) Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French