Summary
João Grilo is an experienced IT leader with 10 years in software delivery, SRE and platform enablement, currently leading Ecosystem Core & Software Accelerators at ING España&Portugal. He specializes in unifying development and operations, building tooling and workflows that reduce toil and empower squads to deliver autonomously. Hands-on with bash, Perl and Python, João has migrated legacy systems to containerized cloud platforms and implemented SRE practices like canary and blue/green deployments to achieve zero-downtime migrations. He has driven CI/CD, testing and virtualization initiatives across large organizations, improving cycle time, defect rates and developer collaboration. Comfortable in both technical and people-management roles, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic automation and a background in philosophy that informs clear, structured problem solving. Based in Greater Madrid, he’s known for finding the right small tools that make big operational differences.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at University of Lisbon
English, Portuguese, Spanish