João Ascenso
Senior Engineering Manager - Integrations & Data Platform @Just Eat Takeaway.com
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Engineering Manager - Integrations & Data Platform @Just Eat Takeaway.com
London, GB
Platform Strategy & Leadership: Lead the technical design and delivery of thenext-generation data platform, defining strategy and roadmaps to enable thousandsof engineers across the organisation. Lead and delivered our new aws lakehouseand currently co-leading the implementation of our new real-time streaming platformand our 3 mesh architecture - Data mesh, Integration mesh and AI mesh- Team Building: Manage and mentor a high-performing organisation of engineeringteams and managers, overseeing several domains within the Platform pillar- Data Ecosystem and Messaging: Currently leading the team driving \"shift-left\" andmessaging excellence in the oganization. We maintain our internal messagingsystems (kafka and SNS/SQS) with zero downtime and create self-service toolingand engineering workflows that reduce friction and accelerate development for our1200+ engineers- Platform Governance: Currently leading the team implementing data governance,lineage, data quality and observability standards to ensure consistency and trustacross the engineering data landscape- Infrastructure & Services: lead the http team, where I delivered the new generationinternet-facing gateway service, replacing a critical system in production with zerodowntime or business impact. This new system improved our internet facing gatewayuptime to 100% and unified our gateway system into one
EDUCATION
University of Évora
Master's degree, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT JOÃO ASCENSO
I\'m a seasoned Technical Leader with a reputation for leading groups of teams, building and scaling cutting-edge event-driven and distributed systems in the cloud. My focus is on empowering engineering teams through robust platform and data solutions, owning widely adopted internal products, and fostering agile delivery. I\'m actively seeking bigger challenges where I can leverage my expertise to drive innovation and make a substantial industry contribution.CORE COMPETENCIES- Leadership: Strategic planning, Roadmap Definition, stakeholder management,strong problem-solving skills, keen analytical mindset, and excellent communicationskills- Distributed Systems: Event-Driven Architecture, data and integration meshes,Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP), Big Data, Microservices- Data Governance: Data contracts, metadata management, observability, datadiscovery, Lineage, Data Quality, Security/Compliance (PCI/PII), openstandards(AsyncAPI, Open data contract, Open Data Product Specification), Business andSystem catalogues- AI: Enablement of platform capabilities using MCP and agent skills, experience buildingLakehouse architectures that support AI and agentic exploration- Team Management: Mentoring Managers & Engineers, Agile Delivery, PerformanceManagement- Tech Stack: Messaging(Kafka, sns/sqs), Lakehouse(Apache Iceberg, s3Tables,Hadoop), Frameworks(Flink,Spark), Kubernetes, IaC(Pulumi, Terraform), CI/CD,python/go/java.
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