Miguel Vieira is a pragmatic Head of Engineering with 11 years of experience scaling engineering teams and shipping resilient e-commerce and SaaS platforms. He blends hands-on development (dedicating 20–35% of his sprint to coding) with strategic leadership, having led tech organizations from CTO to Head of Engineering roles across e-commerce, ad-tech, and nonprofit marketplaces. Deeply versed in DevOps, SRE, Kubernetes, microservices and AWS, he focuses on CI/CD, SLOs/SLIs, MTTR reduction and measurable operational performance. Known for building autonomous, high-trust teams, he prioritizes clarity and mentorship while driving automation and platform maturity. Based in Amares, Portugal, Miguel brings a founder’s mindset and a taste for continuous technical learning that keeps him close to open-source and emerging engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Natural Sciences, Secondary School Natural Sciences at Escola secundária de Amares
TIC Information and Communication Technologies, TIC Information and Communication Technologies at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Laravel library to communicate with SIBS - Open Payment Platform. The library includes payments: MBWAY, VISA, MASTER, AMEX, VPAY, MAESTRO, VISADEBIT, VISAELECTRON.
Contributions:9 releases, 26 commits, 44 PRs in 2 months
An AWS Lambda Function to resize images automatically with API Gateway and S3 for imagemagick tasks. When an image is called on AWS Api Gateway, this package will resize it and send it to the S3.
Contributions:5 releases, 18 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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