Rui聽Francisco
Director Software Services at The Sustainability Network
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Francisco is a strategic software leader and founder with over 20 years in IT, currently directing Software Services at EBSCO Information Services and co-founding The Sustainability Network. He builds and mentors multicultural pre-sales engineering teams that design bespoke SaaS solutions, leveraging a rare blend of product-first pragmatism, data science training from IBM, and an Executive MBA from The Lisbon MBA (Cat贸lica | Nova | MIT Sloan). Rui has deep operational experience across discovery and support engineering roles and has repeatedly translated technical insights into profitable market-facing services across Europe, Latin America, and Central Asia. Known for servant leadership and a bias for action, he partners with C-level stakeholders to shape go-to-market strategy and measure outcomes through data-driven analysis. Fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, he combines systems engineering rigor with sustainability and ESG expertise acquired through recent executive education.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, ESG : Reporting and Sustainability, Postgraduate Degree, ESG : Reporting and Sustainability at INDEG-ISCTE Executive EducationImmersion Program on Enterpreneurship, Immersion Program on Enterpreneurship at MIT Sloan Executive EducationExecutive MBA , Cat贸lica | Nova | MIT Sloan, Business Administration and Management, Enterpreneurship, Executive MBA , Cat贸lica | Nova | MIT Sloan, Business Administration and Management, Enterpreneurship at The Lisbon MBAMSc Systems Engineering , Data mining, Systems Engineering, MSc Systems Engineering , Data mining, Systems Engineering at ISEL - Instituto Superior De Engenharia De LisboaEng. Inform谩tica, IT, Eng. Inform谩tica, IT at Universidade Independente
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian
Github Skills (6)
portal10
discovery9
drupal7
api7
php6
integrate4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ebsco/edsapi-drupal-plugin
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
drupal
ebsco/vufind
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 months
portalresource-discoverydiscoveryresource-librarydiscovery-portal
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