Filipe Albero Pomar · London Hi, I'm Filipe.

I'm an engineering manager who's also been the product manager and the architect.

Today I'm at Maersk. Before that, Sky News and Now TV. Along the way I've become hands-on with AI, and I write and speak about what it means for engineering teams.

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Filipe Albero Pomar, engineering manager in London
10 yrsin engineering management, after years as an engineer
3→15engineers, twice. Teams I built from the ground up
C-levelbriefed CPOs and CTOs at three companies
+4%annual recurring revenue from one product I designed and built
Where I've worked
  • Maersk
  • Sky News
  • Now TV
  • plus detours into energy trading and virtual reality
01

A bit more about me

The short version, if you'd asked me to tell you about myself.

I care about two things in equal measure: software that moves the business, and the people who build it. Software with no business impact means nothing to me, and a team that doesn't work well together won't deliver it.

When Apple News launched, its technical constraints threatened to leave an entire newsroom on the sidelines. I found a way in.

The less visible part of the job is individuals, one at a time, and then the dynamics between them.

Filipe taking a selfie with his team around a dinner table, sharing dosas
Having dosas with my team in India
How I got to London
  1. Brazil grew up
  2. Alaska school exchange year
  3. Brazil BSc Computer Science
  4. Italy MSc Software Engineering
  5. Spain MSc, continued
  6. London home since 2011
02

The job I love

As an engineering manager, I get to combine the three things I love most: people, technology and product, all aimed at delivering something the business would miss if it were gone.

Venn diagram of three overlapping circles, People, Technology and Product, with Delivery where all three overlap. People Technology Product Delivery
Numbers behind it

  • People management

    Took over teams of 14 and 19 people, one of them failing. Nobody left either team.

  • Technical direction

    Designed the architecture for a zero to one product that added 4% to annual recurring revenue.

  • Product guidance

    Two and a half years as a product manager still shapes how I lead.

  • Delivery, in the middle

    Took the completion rate of committed work from 25% to 90% over two years.

> what I believe

AI is on its way to being a commodity. When everyone has the same tools, the real advantage is the people, and how well they work together.

It's the thread running through everything I speak and write about.

03

Talks and writing

How AI is changing engineering teams, and the parts of management that rarely show up in the metrics.

Filipe at the TechLeadConf panel discussion, seated at a table with other speakers
On the panel at TechLeadConf, London

Talks

Writing

All my writing on Medium
04

Kind words

I'm grateful to have received these comments from past colleagues.

Some say that your first manager has a major impact on your career progression. Well, if my career goes just half as well as Filipe was as my first proper manager, I have a bright future ahead of me.
Titusz BanSoftware Engineer at Wayve
Filipe is a consummate professional who had the respect of both his team and senior stakeholders alike.
Helen BaronHead of Technology at Sky
Filipe is very adaptable and open to learning new things. He is approachable, patient and focused on the needs of the teams he works with.
Chris RaynerCPO at Mesmerise