Rene Sorel is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portugal with a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and education technology ventures. He has held senior technical and executive roles—CTO, Head of Software, Director of Technology and CEO—where he translated product vision into scalable systems and operational teams. At Miro he continues to influence product engineering at scale after prior leadership at iyris, Pearson Advance and Virtual Academies. A thoughtful problem-solver who prefers depth over labels, he brings persistence tackling complex technical challenges and a habit of questioning assumptions to find elegant solutions. Outside of work he’s a family-focused gamer, reader and writer, which informs a pragmatic, human-centered approach to building software.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Diocesan College High School
Contributions:7 PRs, 8 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
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