Summary
Paulo Amaral is a Sportsbook Development Manager based in Malta with 12 years of software and leadership experience building and scaling remote engineering teams for iGaming and betting platforms. He combines hands-on full-stack development background (PHP, Java, C++, databases) with strong agile coaching skills, having led transformations, trained teams and improved delivery practices across distributed organisations. Known for bridging technical and stakeholder worlds, he emphasizes transparency, metrics-driven decision making and developer growth—coaching soft skills like public speaking and estimation alongside code quality. His career includes founding an IoT startup, mentoring junior engineers in high-pressure projects, and improving legacy systems into production-grade services. Quietly, he brings an applied mathematics mindset from USP to system design and performance tuning, which surfaces in optimisations and automation across his roles.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Degree Applied and Computational Maths, Bachelor Degree Applied and Computational Maths at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Technical Electrical and Electronics, Technical Electrical and Electronics at Colégio Técnico de Universidade de Campinas
Portuguese, English