Hi, I’m Diogo.

I studied Industrial Engineering at FEUP. My first work at Fater was close to the factory floor: as an intern and later a Process Engineer, I used production data to follow line performance and plan maintenance. It taught me to look for the small signals that can prevent a bigger problem.

Somewhere along the way, I realised I was just as curious about the digital systems behind the work. I moved into software and found I loved building things, learning how they fit together, and working with people who see a problem from a different angle.

At Made In Alpha, I joined a distributed Agile team and learned frontend development, version control, and how to work closely with designers. At Proflands, I helped an education startup create digital learning content while the team explored a new direction for its product. Those early teams showed me that good software grows through conversation as much as code.

At Critical TechWorks, I worked as a Full Stack Developer, taking features from user stories through implementation and testing. I also got closer to the systems around the code: continuous integration, monitoring, and the reality of keeping services running around the clock.

Most recently at BLIP, my work centred on business-critical services and the people who depend on them. I took ownership of operational workflows, helped resolve incidents and reduce vulnerabilities, and supported Apache Storm topologies through migrations to newer versions. I built SignalFx dashboards and alerts, used Splunk and Sensu to follow service health, and led service takeovers so the next engineer had a clear path in.

I also documented support processes and made reusable AI skills to bring more consistency to onboarding Storm topologies. I’m interested in making engineering knowledge easier to share. One idea I helped shape was a future support assistant that could gather useful evidence from logs and documentation during an investigation; it was planned as a direction to explore, not a workflow we implemented.

Work has taken me from software development into application engineering, production support, DevOps, and reliability. The thread through it all is the same: understand the system, make the useful change, and leave things clearer for the people who come next.

That instinct follows me outside work, too. At university I started “Entregas E Agora?”, a home-delivery service. From 2019 to 2025 I served on the board of The Agency Clan, an esports team and association—an easy fit for someone who has always enjoyed gaming. I still occasionally advise Rucodel, a small manufacturing business, on process improvement and practical AI-assisted software ideas.

And when I’m away from a screen full of logs, I’m likely listening to hip-hop or finding something new to learn. I’m based in Porto, and I’m always curious about what makes a useful thing work.

If you’d like to talk,email me.