Joao Aguiar
Engineering Manager at Ikigai Digital
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolJoao Aguiar is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently leading engineering at Ikigai Digital and focused on neobank products. He has a strong track record in hiring, team growth and culture, having led multiple cross-functional teams and set engineering vision and OKRs at startups like Tamanna and KI challenge.rs. Technically hands-on, Joao has architected high-availability infrastructure and migrations from monoliths to microservices using Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang and CI/CD automation. He’s delivered measurable operational improvements—such as 50% faster page loads and incident-free Black Friday traffic—while implementing robust SLO/SLA, on-call and cost-optimization practices. Fluent in both platform and product conversations, he pairs strategic decision-making with mentoring and recruitment skills that helped grow early-stage companies to significant revenue. Based in Dubai with a master’s in software engineering, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade infrastructure expertise.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (129)
google-maps10
tinder10
credit-card10
api10
rest10
payment10
golang10
react-native-component10
nodejs10
credit10
javascript9
no-code9
maps9
mapbox-gl9
ioc-container9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
uniplaces/react-native-uni-carousel
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 24 commits, 11 PRs in 5 months
uniplaces/react-validated-component
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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