I am a Senior Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) and Developer with +14 years of experience, specialized in .Net Technologies and C# development. I love technology, challenges, and learning, I consider myself to have good problem-solving skills and a great team spirit. Throughout my career I’ve always challenged myself to learn more and achieve more, as I’m a very curious and ambitious person. For the past 2 years I’ve been a CSA in the Cloud Native space, helping customers modernize their applications to a adopt cloud native architectures, practices and Technologies, such as helping them modernize their ALM practices to adopt IaC and fully automated deployments, improve their Developer Velocity and become more agile, as well as adopt modern architecture that will allow them to take more out of cloud native technologies such as AKS, Container Instances, Serverless and more. My goal as a CSA is to be a Trusted Technical advisor and partner to my customers, work with both their CTO/CIO and directors and their Tech Leads, to have a true positive and lasting impact in their cloud journey. Before being a CSA I’ve worked almost my entire career in Consulting, both inside Microsoft Consulting Services team as well as outside Microsoft, for almost 12 years. During that time, I did many projects including some Tier1 projects like setting up the OTT platform for the major Telco in Portugal back in 2009. I did many roles during those years, from Software Developer Engineer to Tech Lead, also Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, and Digital Advisor. I helped customers by both building them the solution, architecting it, and advising them on strategy and building multi-year plans for their Digital Transformations and even pure Innovation as I was responsible for the Innovation pipeline of one of my customers for almost 2 years. In my personal time I also take on a lot of volunteer projects, I founded and lead a podcast about AI that is now in it’s 3rd year and has ranked on the top 3 tech podcasts on Spotify in Portugal, I’m also a Professional Speaker, having done many keynotes, talks, panels, etc… I’m also very active in my community having founded many communities and meetup groups and always contributing to those communities. One of the personal projects I’ve been dedicating my time currently is the NGO I’ve founded focussed on boardgames were I lead a team of 40+ volunteers, in many projects, including being one of the largest and best content producers in Portugal for boardgame content, leading our developer team that is focussed on building tech to help the boardgame community, and more. My motivation now is to bring all of this experience from both leading teams and customers in their digital strategies, being almost 15 years in the field creating value to customers with our technology, and take the next step in my career and work on a product team building the products that I’ve been integrating and using all of these years, I’m especially keen in leveraging my innovation background and skillset to challenge the impossible to bring even more of me to the table in build new and ground breaking tech that will have even more impact in the world.