Miguel Marinhas
Chief Technology Officer at Leafwell
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Marinhas is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Lisbon with 13 years of experience scaling product-led companies and building engineering teams. He currently leads Leafwell and co-runs Minuscode, a collective focused on delivering web and mobile products using open-source technologies. His background blends hands-on engineering—shipping full-stack platforms, APIs and mobile apps—with research in machine learning and information retrieval from an academic and R&D footing. Past roles include building booking and discovery systems at Table & Friends and coordinating a state-funded search relevance project at Quidgest, showing a pattern of turning research into production-grade software. He combines strategic product thinking with deep technical fluency across Ruby on Rails, NoSQL, search, and mobile stacks, and brings an entrepreneur’s mindset to operationalizing data and tech. Quietly, his career reflects a long-running commitment to bridging academic ML work with practical developer-centric product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Sciences, BSc, Computer Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (24)
api9
kemal8
rest8
websocket8
rails-gem8
json8
asset-pipeline6
twitter6
javascript6
bootstrap6
pipeline5
twitter-bootstrap5
rails4
ruby-on-rails4
web-framework3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
minuscode/minuscode.github.io
Apr 2013 - Aug 2018
minuscode web
Contributions:150 commits, 57 PRs, 79 pushes in 5 years 5 months
javascript
miguelm/miguelm.github.com
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
Homepage
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes in 8 years 11 months
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