Pedro Miguel Correia Araújo
Braga, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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SeniorPedro Araújo is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 13+ years building product-driven teams and scalable web platforms from Lisbon to Braga. He co-founded Attentive, scaling it to customers across four continents, raising $1.5M and growing the team past 20, and later launched Issuu’s Braga office from one person to ~50 in just over two years while shaping engineering career frameworks and integrations with partners like Canva and HubSpot. Equally comfortable in hands-on roles and strategy, he has a strong background in Python/Django, systems architecture, and operational setup for rapid scaling. More recently he helped structure growth at a scaleup as its first engineering manager and now leads engineering at Zendesk, focusing on high-performing teams and reliable delivery. His career blends entrepreneurship, formal CS training in distributed systems, and a knack for turning small teams into repeatable organizational constructs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs technical depth with community-minded leadership.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (35)
timestamp10
datetime9
django9
aiohttp-client9
websocket-client9
python-logging8
aiohttp8
python8
jsonfield8
slack8
websocket8
cms8
monitoring7
server-monitoring7
cloudwatch7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pedroma/alta-tensao
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Alta Tensão PodCast Generator
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
podcasttenszealpodcast-generatortranscript
pedroma/python-stream-to
Jan 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:4 commits in 4 months
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