I am a Senior Product Manager with over eight years of experience overseeing creating and deploying innovative software solutions. With a background in software development, my expertise lies in product management, user engagement, market analysis, and leading multidisciplinary teams to drive product innovation and secure funding.

• I created and am maintaining GistMaster, a catalogue for Github Gists
• I am actively contributing to pydanny/refry
• I created @AIOTIEU's online catalogues using Github pages
• I contributed to the SmartDataModels initiative (via my other profile @uw-rvitorino)

• Product Manager at @Untile:

  • Leading end-to-end product lifecycle, aligning product strategies with market needs and business goals through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Manage client relationships and gather market feedback to prioritise features, drive product innovation, and ensure competitive positioning.

• Head of Technical Communication at @Ubiwhere:

  • Driving industry engagement and positioning Ubiwhere as a leader through events, keynotes, and panels.
  • Orchestrating workshops and seminars, fostering strategic partnerships that increase prospective customers.

• Product Manager at @Ubiwhere:

  • Directed the development and launch of the Urban Platform, deployed in 12+ cities, winning three international awards.
  • Secured 20+ grants, contributing to significant community impact through smart city initiatives.

• Software Developer at @Ubiwhere and Instituto Pedro Nunes:

  • Built smart mobility products using technologies like Django, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Celery, CKAN and FIWARE.
  • Developed a mobile app with Augmented Reality and multimodal route planner for transit agencies.

• Habitação Transparente (Data Science for Social Good): Leading the communication strategy for an open data project about housing.
• The Impostor PM: Organising events in Coimbra and managing Coimbra's Club Community of Product Managers.
• Apps for Good Expert: Guiding young developers in business models, creativity, pitching, technical and data feasibility.
• World Data League Mentor: Guiding teams in solving real-world problems with data analysis and visualisation expertise.

Hoping to pump up these stats and share more contributions with Python 🐍, my favourite programming language 😅

Feel free to contact me through email or via LinkedIn.

Ricardo Vitorino
Senior Product Manager and Product Thinker