João Granado
Head Of Engineering at NewDay
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Garcia is a Head of Engineering based in London with 11 years of experience leading and scaling engineering teams across finance and creative platforms. He has progressed through hands-on senior and lead roles at Farfetch and The Dots to engineering leadership at NewDay, combining product-minded delivery with team-building expertise. Trained as a civil engineer, he brings a systems-thinking approach and a deep interest in design, human behaviour and interactive interfaces that informs pragmatic UX-aware technical decisions. A strong advocate of learning-by-doing, João experiments across domains from computer science to filmmaking and photography, which helps him bridge technical, design and user perspectives. He frequently mentors engineers and prioritises hiring talented people who can grow into senior roles, focusing on sustainable delivery and continuous experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Civil Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (66)
mobile-development10
linter10
hybrid10
javascript10
app-framework10
browser10
compiler10
ecmascript10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
cross-platform10
eslint10
browserslist10
android10
angularjs10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seegno-forks/angular-paginate-anything
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 months
carteserver-side-paginationserver-sidepagination
seegno/sei16
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
reactinformworkshopreact-nativejavascript
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