Pedro Carvalho
Vice President Of Engineering at thermondo
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPedro Carvalho is a seasoned engineering leader and programmer since 2001 who has scaled teams and platforms at global unicorns and startups, including HelloFresh, Contentful, Getir, Terramate and now thermondo. With 12+ years in formal leadership roles, he has built and grown engineering organizations across Europe, led cross-border remote teams, and delivered platform and API initiatives that improved developer velocity and operational resilience. He combines hands-on technical experience—shipping core services, infrastructure as code, and performance-focused system redesigns—with a strong track record in hiring, mentoring managers, and reducing SaaS spend through strategic vendor management. Known for operational empathy, he drives measurable impact from launch to scale, such as automating disaster recovery and cutting manual work flows that enabled rapid market expansion. An educator and content creator, Pedro brings a teacher’s mindset to leadership, empowering engineers to grow into managers and senior ICs. Based in Berlin, he balances family life with a lifelong curiosity for building pragmatic, scalable engineering systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
EU Lvl III in Web Developent Web development Systems Administration, EU Lvl III in Web Developent Web development Systems Administration at IPFEL - Instituto Particular Formação e Engino de LínguasElectronics Engineering Electronics Physics Maths Computer hardware, Electronics Engineering Electronics Physics Maths Computer hardware at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (36)
code-generation10
change-detection10
terraform9
aws9
vagrant8
infrastructure8
factory7
infrastructure-as-code7
virtualization7
ruby7
usergroup7
php-library6
contentful6
automation6
dummy-data6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pedrotypes/pedrogilcarvalho.com
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 10 months
hellofresh/commander
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
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