Vinícius Abdala is a people-focused Director of Engineering with 11 years of experience scaling teams and delivery for major consumer platforms across Europe and Ireland. He has led engineering organizations from hands-on developer roles to head-of-engineering positions at Zalando, and senior leadership at Shopify and Intercom, currently overseeing 20+ engineers solving business-critical problems for a leading online fashion retailer. Equally comfortable mentoring junior engineers and partnering with principals, he has end-to-end experience from ideation and scoping to production operations and platform reliability. Based in Dublin, he also ships independent projects—such as a published Irish legislation reference app—demonstrating a pragmatic builder mindset alongside strategic leadership.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Software Development, Associate's degree Software Development at I.E.E.P. Dr. Solon Tavares
Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Analysis, Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Analysis at Universidade Norte do Paraná
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