Pedro Lopes
Group Product Manager, Domains & Apps at Squarespace
Aveiro, Portugal
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Top SchoolPedro Lopes is a product executive and former software researcher with 14 years of experience building and scaling web and SaaS products, currently leading Domains & Apps at Squarespace. With a PhD in Computer Science from Universidade de Aveiro, he blends deep technical understanding with pragmatic product strategy—moving teams from prototypes to revenue-driving platforms. He has led major business model shifts (notably a freemium-to-paid transition that cut churn by ~50% and boosted upsells) and overseen architectural transformations from static to dynamic site paradigms. Pedro is skilled at aligning cross-functional stakeholders and coaching product teams to deliver measurable outcomes, from enterprise SSO rollouts to e-commerce feature launches. Based in Aveiro, Portugal, he brings a researcher's rigor to product decisions and an engineer’s eye for operational efficiency, having driven significant infrastructure and cost optimizations earlier in his career. Outside product metrics, he’s notable for translating complex bioinformatics and academic projects into production-grade software, demonstrating versatility across domains.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Universidade de Aveiro
English
Stackoverflow
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4kreached
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Github Skills (43)
latex10
editor9
portal9
datalist9
django8
web-application7
semantic-web7
python7
html6
namespaces6
prototyping6
zurb-foundation6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
sql-server6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ieeta-pt/Diseasecard
Jul 2012 - May 2015
Rare Diseases Portal using COEUS framework
Contributions:48 commits, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
pythondjangoportalrarediseases
bioinformatics-ua/COEUS
Oct 2011 - Jun 2013
Contributions:46 commits in 1 year 7 months
web-applicationframeworkweb-application-frameworksemantic-webapplication-framework
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