Summary
Luis Serralheiro is an engineering manager and founder with 14+ years of hands-on experience and over two decades in software development, now leading Merchant Centre engineering at Groupon. He combines deep backend expertise in low-latency, high-throughput systems (from HFT exchange connectivity at Susquehanna) with product-focused e-commerce and ticketing platforms (Mastercard white-label commerce, Web Summit’s Ticket Machine). A proven people leader, he has built and scaled multidisciplinary teams across mobile, AI/ML and web, mentoring engineers while owning architecture and delivery. He founded multiple startups and products—ranging from a dynamic data management platform to intelligent push engines—bringing an operator’s mindset to product engineering. Comfortable across Java, Python, .NET, modern JS frameworks and cloud-native tooling, he repeatedly delivers pragmatic, auditable systems for enterprise clients. Based in Coimbra, Portugal, he’s equally at home optimizing latency-sensitive trading APIs and shipping customer-facing commerce experiences.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Software Engineering Computer Science, Master in Software Engineering Computer Science at Universidade de Coimbra
English, Portuguese, Spanish