Pedro Araújo
Senior Engineering Manager at Zendesk
Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Araújo is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 13+ years building product-driven teams and scalable web platforms from Lisbon to Braga. He co-founded Attentive, scaling it to customers across four continents, raising $1.5M and growing the team past 20, and later launched Issuu’s Braga office from one person to ~50 in just over two years while shaping engineering career frameworks and integrations with partners like Canva and HubSpot. Equally comfortable in hands-on roles and strategy, he has a strong background in Python/Django, systems architecture, and operational setup for rapid scaling. More recently he helped structure growth at a scaleup as its first engineering manager and now leads engineering at Zendesk, focusing on high-performing teams and reliable delivery. His career blends entrepreneurship, formal CS training in distributed systems, and a knack for turning small teams into repeatable organizational constructs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs technical depth with community-minded leadership.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Informatics Parallel and Distributed Computing Formal Methods in Software Engineering, Masters in Informatics Parallel and Distributed Computing Formal Methods in Software Engineering at Universidade do MinhoColégio D. Diogo de SousaLiderança, Liderança at Academia Militar
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (42)
slack-bot10
datetime9
django9
websocket9
aiohttp9
jsonfield9
aiohttp-client9
timestamp9
websocket-client9
python8
slack8
cms7
stl7
dates7
snyk-product7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pedroma/alta-tensao
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Alta Tensão PodCast Generator
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
podcasttenszealpodcast-generatortranscript
pedroma/python-stream-to
Jan 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 4 months
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