Ricardo Filipe
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Porto, Portugal
Toptal member since April 19, 2021
Ricardo is a technical product manager and technology consultant with 6+ years of experience leading digital product development teams. Leveraging his computer engineering background, Ricardo co-founded an IoT startup that was acquired, which explains his entrepreneurial approach to any challenge. In the past two years, Ricardo has led multiple product teams within corporate clients. He enjoys combining strategy with technology to disrupt processes.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Cloud
- Hardware Development
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Pitch Deck Consultant
- Product Vision
- Product-market Fit
- Sales Pitches
Work Experience
Principal
Metyis
- Took over a project from a top consultancy agency to develop it further and take it to market in under five months.
- Played a key role in the product vision, roadmap, implementation, and go-to-market for a leading beverage corporate.
- Led the proposal development and first pitch on several accounts.
- Assisted in sourcing hardware suppliers in Portugal at the same cost as Asian counterparts.
- Grew a team of five to more than 50 in less than two years.
- Collaborated with the internal R&D department to explore new technologies, such as printed electronics, edge computing, and blockchain.
General Manager
Virtusai
- Spearheaded the engagement and managed our team to work with a leading brewery, which led to an acquisition offer.
- Developed and implemented the vision for monitoring beer consumption, using technology.
- Secured investors, even though we were freshly graduated and had no prior experience.
- Played a key role in crafting our technological solution as a software engineer, despite limited resources.
Project History
Virtus: IoT Platform for Breweries
Designed and developed a full platform where breweries can monitor draught beer sales in real time.
Virtus monitors unaccounted pours, over and under pouring, spillage, employee theft, and spoilage, by tracking every drop of draft beer poured on every tap. It provides a complete solution for bars, restaurants, and breweries, that optimizes logistics, provides valuable marketing insights, and eliminates beer waste.
The solution includes a custom hardware sensor that communicates with a cloud where the data is stored. Users access this data through different web and native apps.
How did that promotion affect last Friday’s revenue? Compare and analyze your customers’ engagement and make data-driven decisions.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Budapest, Hungary
Master's Degree in Software Engineering
University of Porto - Porto, Portugal
Skills
Tools
Slack, Board Reporting, Trello
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, B2C
Platforms
Azure
Other
Microsoft PowerPoint, Internet of Things (IoT), Project Management, Pitch Decks, Product Vision, Sensors & Actuators, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Startups, Lean Startups, Entrepreneurship, Web Applications, Mobile Apps, Prototyping, CEO, JavaScript, Early-stage Startups, Estimations, Requirements, Estimation & Planning, Product Management, Node.js, Hardware Development, Sales Pitches, Pitch Deck Consultant, Stakeholder Management, Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Product-market Fit, Fundraising, Strategy, Product Roadmaps, Teams, ClickUp, Google, Software, Apps, Java, Sales, Market Fit, Financials, Machine Learning, Data Science, Discovery Workshops
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