Ricardo Bicho
Head Of Engineering at Simplifai
Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Bicho is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of formal experience and a two-decade technical foundation, currently serving as Head of Engineering and known for turning legacy .NET estates into cloud-ready platforms. He combines hands-on expertise in C#, Java, and Azure services with proven people skills—mentoring teams, defining engineering standards and implementing CI/CD across Azure DevOps, GitHub and Jenkins. His background spans technical leadership roles at Simplifai, ZigZag Global and The AA, plus early-career systems work from telecom ISUP patches to MPI research, giving him a rare mix of low-level systems insight and modern web/cloud architecture. Trained in project management and emotional intelligence, he balances delivery discipline with team development and operational reliability. Based in Portugal, he often bridges product and engineering needs to deliver pragmatic, maintainable solutions for complex enterprise environments.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electronics Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronics Telecommunications and Computer Engineering at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa – ISELJazz, Jazz at Escola de Jazz do Barreiro
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
android6
java6
react4
consistency3
check-in2
dotnet2
static-analysis2
csharp2
stylecop1
vscode1
visual-studio1
vscode-extension1
flatpickr1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Mephystus/SharedLibrary
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:93 commits, 99 PRs, 170 pushes in 2 months
Mephystus/Customer
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:11 PRs, 45 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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