João Ferrão
Software Engineering Leader Founder Laburo.io Available For New Opportunities
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoão Ferrão is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with 14 years’ experience building and scaling mobile-first, cloud-native products and high-performing distributed teams. At Tripadvisor he led Viator’s cross-platform engineering through rapid growth—scaling teams across Europe, driving product quality to 99%+ crash-free metrics and delivering dramatic revenue and bookings improvements from single-digit to market-leading share. He combines hands-on technical depth in full-stack and mobile platforms with a people-first leadership style that emphasizes ownership, transparent metrics and platform-as-product thinking. As founder of Laburo.io he’s applying cloud-native and AI integrations to solve the real-world problem of job application management, showing his appetite for product-led entrepreneurship. Based in Oxford, he’s actively seeking leadership roles where he can replicate his track record of technical excellence, measurable business outcomes and team empowerment.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Advanced Diploma Data and System Analysis, Undergraduate Advanced Diploma Data and System Analysis at University of Oxford
Portuguese, Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (5)
cinnamon5
gnome-shell4
gnome4
shell3
linux2
Github contributions (5)
jferrao/gtk
May 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:85 commits in 2 months
gnome-shell-extensionlinuxgnomegnome-shellcinnamon
jferrao/effective-java-with-kotlin
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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