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Kevin Dias

@kevindias1

14+ years in TPM-adjacent roles: cross-team coordination, dependency management, delivery at scale. Dual US/Portuguese citizen, open to remote.

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What I'm looking for

Fully remote Technical Program Manager roles where I coordinate cross-team delivery, manage dependencies at scale, and enable engineering teams through process improvement. Open to US, UK, or EU companies hiring remotely from Portugal. I thrive in established organizations with mature engineering practices, focusing on program coordination over hands-on implementation.

I've spent 14+ years operating at the intersection of engineering delivery and cross-team coordination often wearing the TPM, Engineering Manager, and Architect hats simultaneously, even when my official title said something else.

Currently, I'm subcontracted through WeAreMeta to Mindera on the Marks & Spencer (UK) Sparks card program. I coordinate daily delivery across 4 teams (~20+ engineers), represent my pod at cross-pod Scrum of Scrums, track dependencies and blockers, and hold weekly alignment meetings with downstream consumers. I also coordinate warroom sessions for production incidents and triage support tickets across the transaction bridge and downstream systems.

Before this, I was the sole TPM for Jupiter Light's e-wallet MVP over 8 months — gathering stakeholder requirements, defining scope, creating user stories, building the delivery timeline, and coordinating a team of 4 developers from concept to production-ready launch.

At Devoteam (nearly 3 years), I worked across 8 client engagements. Highlights include: translating cryptic government specifications into actionable deliverables for a public service productivity platform (coordinating 3 developers and 1 designer, PO and PM); presenting a cloud architecture proposal to ~200 stakeholders across multiple departments while live-translating from Portuguese to English; and acting as security champion on a legacy system migration, making exception decisions on Fortify and SonarQube findings within client guidelines.

Earlier, I led a team of 20+ developers at Bring Digital — mostly junior engineers fresh out of bootcamp coordinating product definition, stakeholder alignment, and daily burndown/velocity tracking for a banking platform modernization.

My career started at Amberjack Solutions, where I was sole architect and delivery owner for end-to-end telemetry systems used in oceanography and environmental studies from hardware design and PCB prototyping through online fleet management platforms monitoring hundreds of remote autonomous stations.

I'm a dual US/Portuguese citizen, native in both English and Portuguese, proficient in Spanish. I'm looking for fully remote TPM or Engineering Enablement roles with US, UK, or EU-based companies.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Technical Coordinator

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Senior team member on M&S (UK) Sparks card program. Ran pod standups, represented our pod at cross-pod Scrum of Scrums. Investigated 5 tools ahead of implementation (Dynatrace, PagerDuty, OpenTelemetry, Snyk, Wiz). Coordinated incident warrooms, triaged support tickets. Guided sprint refinements, broke down epics. Held weekly alignment calls with downstream consumers.

JL

Architect, Lead R&D, Developer

Jupiter Light

Mar 2024 - Nov 2024 (8 months)

Served as sole TPM for the E-Wallet MVP, gathering stakeholder requirements, defining scope and delivery timeline, and structuring the program from concept to production-ready MVP. Coordinated a small delivery team (~4), producing user stories and microservice architecture using event-driven design while integrating observability/security tooling.

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Java Tech Lead and Architect

Jun 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Tech Lead and Architect across 8 client engagements. Government Platform: translated cryptic specs, coordinated team, managed roadmap. EV Charging: presented architecture to ~200 stakeholders, live-translating from Portuguese. Medical Scheduling: defined architecture (DDD, Spring, AWS), created stories. Security Champion: led migration, Fortify/SonarQube decisions.

BD

Java Developer and Team Leader

Bring Digital

Jun 2019 - May 2021 (1 year 11 months)

Officially Scrum Master while crossing into other roles. Led 20+ developers across web, mobile, backend, transforming bank solutions into multi-channel platforms with Backbase. Coordinated product definition, stakeholder alignment, delivery planning. Ran daily burndowns and velocity tracking. Led legacy banking integration into omni-channel platform, mentoring junior bootcamp graduates.

AS

Principal Java Developer and Architect

Amberjack Solutions

Jan 2012 - Nov 2018 (6 years 10 months)

Sole architect for telemetry systems in oceanography from hardware design and PCB prototyping through software architecture and fleet management. Built POCs independently, onboarded 2 hires to scale. Designed platform for hundreds of remote stations with health monitoring, alerting, message queue architecture. Developed Android app for managing systems via WiFi/Bluetooth (GSM/3G, RS485, MQTT).

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

AC

Academia de Código

Full-Stack Programming Bootcamp, Full-Stack Development

2019 -

Completed a 14-week intensive full-stack programming bootcamp at Academia de Código starting in Feb 2019.

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Tarleton State University

Bachelor's in Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering

2003 - 2007

Earned a bachelor's degree in computer software engineering at Tarleton State University from 2003 to 2007.

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