About

André Pires is a versatile Technical Product Manager and Product Owner with over a decade of experience in product management and delivery on the cloud. He is currently working at FIBR UK as a Technical Product Manager and Product Owner, where he is leading Technical Excellence initiatives to evolve the product technically and closing the gap between Product and Engineering teams. André is also responsible for all operational team processes, such as dailies, refinements, retros, plannings, mapping and refining new Product features into software deliverables, and releases planning and delivery. André is a foster of fast-paced and collaborative teams and a facilitator of product-driven solutions. He is an expert in team processes and members coach, and product and engineering recruiter. His past experience includes working as a Product Owner and Software Engineer at Volkswagen Digital Solutions, where he was responsible for design, planning, and delivery in an agile product-oriented development team. He was also a Product Manager of the juniors academy product and an active member of Product Owners community. André has also worked as a Software Engineer at Premium Minds, where he created, extended, and refactored features over monolith and microservices, improved endpoints performance, designed APIs using OAS v3, performed unit and integration testing, and built, deployed, and supported releases and bug-fixing. André holds an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, where he studied Computer Engineering. He is proficient in various technologies, including product management, software engineering, test, Java, Docker, Kafka, Microservices, and Integration. André's relevant experience in the field is 10.02 years. With his technical expertise and leadership skills, André is an asset to any organization looking to deliver high-quality products on the cloud.