Luís Jesus
Engineering Manager at Bounce
Lisbon Metropolitan Area Portugal
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLuís Jesus is an engineering manager with over 13 years of experience building and scaling products from MVP to multi-million-user production systems across startups and growth-stage companies. He blends hands-on mobile and backend engineering (Objective-C, Swift, Java/Kotlin, Golang, Ruby on Rails, Elixir) with product-focused leadership, shaping strategy and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver user-centric solutions. At Bounce he progressed from Staff Engineer to Engineering Manager, previously leading engineering at Skyhour and co-founding two product-focused firms, demonstrating both technical breadth and entrepreneurial grit. He excels at scaling teams, systems and processes, and is comfortable moving between native mobile stacks and cloud-native backend architectures. Holding an MSc in Distributed Systems from Instituto Superior Técnico, he frequently pairs strategic thinking with active technical mentorship and a strong appetite for learning new languages and paradigms. An understated strength is his track record of turning early-stage ideas into robust platforms while keeping product and user impact front and center.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Degree (MSc) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering Major in Distributed Systems Minor in Multimedia Systems, Master Degree (MSc) in Information Systems and Computer Engineering Major in Distributed Systems Minor in Multimedia Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (157)
countdown10
operation10
shiny10
pipeline10
erlang10
elixir10
java10
data-collection10
side-menu10
beam9
android-apps9
postgresql9
gesture-recognizer9
ruby9
python9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Bounceapp/elixir-calendarific
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
An Elixir wrapper for the holiday API Calendarific
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
ljesus/steam-go
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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