Pedro Côrte-real
Head Of Corporate Strategy
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Côrte-real is a senior technology and strategy leader with 19 years of experience, currently Head of Corporate Strategy at SONAE after leading large-scale digital and operational transformations as Head of Technology and Supply Chain at MC. He combines hands-on engineering roots—a FEUP-trained computer scientist who contributes to prominent open-source projects like the sway Wayland compositor, darktable, and the Rust image and windowing ecosystems—with strategic delivery of multi-hundred-million euro cost and supply-chain programs. Known for translating low-level technical detail into business value, he has led 500+ teams and delivered rapid results in crisis (notably preserving market share during COVID-19 disruptions). His profile blends deep systems-level engineering experience with an MBA-backed ability to drive corporate strategy and special projects across complex organizations. An unusual strength is his sustained open-source kernel- and graphics-level work, showing he remains a pragmatic coder even while operating at executive scale.
19 years of coding experience
5 year degree in Informatics Engineering / Computer Science, 5 year degree in Informatics Engineering / Computer Science at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto / FEUPMBA, General Management, MBA, General Management at Stanford GSB
Github Skills (52)
platformio10
transit-gateway10
c-language10
composition10
layout10
platform-sdk10
image-processing10
testing10
eway10
payment-gateway10
filetype10
file-conversion10
c1110
decode10
file-operations10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
darktable-org/darktable
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1012 commits, 47 PRs, 409 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Pedro focused on improving the RAW image decoding capabilities of the darktable application, specifically targeting files from various Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Pentax, Fujifilm, and other camera models. They implemented and debugged support for several different RAW formats and decoding methods, incorporating and adapting code from third-party libraries and tools to achieve compatibility. Their work involved parsing file headers, handling different compression methods, and adjusting white balance and color matrix parameters. The contributions demonstrate a deep knowledge of image processing and file format specifications.
imagephotographyimage-processingapplication-workflowdarktable
image-rs/image
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
Encoding and decoding images in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 17 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pedro focused on adding PPM (Portable Pixmap) image format support to the `image-rs/image` repository. Their contributions include implementing both PPM decoding and encoding capabilities, encompassing 8-bit and 16-bit color depths. Furthermore, the user added tests, including a roundtrip test to ensure encoding/decoding integrity. The user also addressed code quality issues by removing unnecessary whitespace and by using byteorder library for endianness conversions, improving the robustness of the PPM implementation.
decodingdecoding-imagesrustencodingpixel
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