afonso jorge ramos

• Led the Mobile App team at BPP in a major modernisation effort, successfully unifying separate iOS and Android codebases into a single React Native with Expo application within one quarter, achieving full feature parity.

• Collaborated extensively with designers and product stakeholders to ensure a seamless migration while significantly improving app performance, accessibility, and overall user experience.

• Established and implemented mobile development best practices, including comprehensive testing strategies, optimized CI/CD pipelines with automated deployments, steered towards mobile patterns and fostered a culture of code review and knowledge sharing.

• Architected a robust navigation system using TanStack Router and React Navigation, enabling instant view transitions while maintaining a clean, maintainable codebase structure that scales with the application’s growth.

• Successfully launched the unified BPP Hub application on both major mobile platforms: iOS (BPP Hub - App Store) and Android (BPP Hub - Play Store)

Spearheaded the company’s Engineering Forum, a monthly knowledge-sharing initiative that increased cross-team collaboration and technical alignment. Served as line manager for 5 engineers, providing structured career development plans, regular feedback sessions, and mentorship opportunities. Played a key role in recruitment, conducting technical interviews and helping to grow the engineering team by over 80% while maintaining high quality standards.

Collaborated directly with client stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, often serving as the technical bridge between teams. Contributed to architectural decision-making for large-scale client projects, offering ongoing guidance and support to the client’s engineering team. Delivered technical workshops and training sessions for both internal teams and clients, focusing on modern JavaScript frameworks and the latest industry trends. Represented YLD at industry events and conferences, strengthening the company’s reputation as a technical thought leader in the JavaScript ecosystem.

• Established and enforced good engineering practices across the organisation through a React-based Developer Portal that acts as a gatekeeper for API guidelines and documentation, that would then manage API Access, API Keys, change subscriptions, etc.

• Developed reusable GitHub Actions and complex GitHub Workflows to automate and standardize development processes, while deploying to Microsoft Azure via Octopus.

• Led a migration from Chakra UI to Tailwind CSS & Radix UI, while maintaining UI consistency across the project and greatly improving the developer experience & accessibility.

• Promoted to a Tech Lead role on November 2023 to start leading the team and driving the technical strategy.

• Developed and implemented strategic plans to drive big architectural changes to the codebase, improving engineering processes, code quality, and team productivity.

As an Assistant Lecturer for the “Software Engineering” course, I provided comprehensive education on Agile project management to 2nd-year students, offering guidance during lab sessions and group assignments to help apply theoretical concepts in practical scenarios. I assessed and graded projects and exams while providing constructive feedback, and promoted software development best practices and Agile methodologies to prepare students for real-world engineering challenges.

Collaborated with school teachers to integrate computational thinking into the curriculum for students aged 10-13 across multiple schools, promoting digital literacy and ethics as core components of computer science education. Contributed to ENSICO’s mission of making computational thinking accessible to all students while utilizing Haskell and other programming tools to introduce fundamental computer science concepts in an engaging manner.

As a Backend Software Engineer at one of Europe’s largest online travel companies, I developed and maintained critical backend services, including the most critical one, the search engine, using Java and SQL. I’ve helped architect event-driven systems with Apache Kafka for real-time data processing, while managing infrastructure deployments through Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

As a Junior Software Engineer at Hostelworld Group, I played a key role in developing the Experiences Hub greenfield project - a new product enabling travelers to discover and book local activities. The frontend and backend were architected using NextJS and TypeScript, with a NestJS backend service that managed data through a Oracle SQL database via Sequelize ORM. A major contribution was designing and building a robust data ingestion pipeline using Elasticsearch and the Adapter Pattern, which allowed seamless integration of experience data from multiple third-party providers while maintaining consistent data structures and performant search capabilities. Also partook in a major migration to OpenID Connect for authentication and authorization, using Auth0, which improved security and user experience.

As a Software Engineer Summer Intern at Hostelworld Group, I researched implementations of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) javascript libraries to build a voice assistant for Hostelworld. I developed a voice assistant integration for Hostelworld’s services, creating a more accessible way for users to interact with the platform. A brief overview of the project is available in my afonsojramos/hostelworld-voice.

• Researcher and Developer of a Kahoot alternative in C#, while using Google Apps Script and Office APIs, integrating Google Forms live responses with lightning-fast updates within Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Lead a development team, and partook in the development, of a new CMS platform for the VCMI and Medical Research group using Django and Wagtail in Python, creating flexibility with automated publishing, publications fetching, SEO, with a fast RESTful API.