Pedro Morais

Software Engineer with many years of experience building products.

Former Engineering leader at Meta (2015–2026), both as a Senior Engineering Manager and Senior Staff Engineer. Was part of the team in Reality Labs building Workrooms and on pathfinding the future of productivity in XR.

Previously, supported Catalog, Facebook’s Inventory Platform. We tackle extremely large scale data ingestion problems and are the foundation for products like Dynamic Ads, Facebook Shops and WhatsApp Catalogs.

Previously, engineering manager at Yammer (2013–2015), the most powerful enterprise social network (part of Microsoft), responsible for the UK Native Apps (iOS & Android) and Quality teams.

Was CTO of MOBIZY (2011–2013), part of the Tekever group, a multiplatform enterprise mobility app store; responsibilities included managing the team that built the native apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, JavaMobile and an HTML5 webapp, and the technical roadmap.

Built Cube Anywhere (2009–2011), a SaaS time and expense tracking app with iPhone, iPad, and Android native clients. The iPad app was released the same day as the iPad, and was considered by Forbes.com one of the 10 must have apps for professionals. The webapp was also the first of its kind to offer offline data access using HTML5 techniques. Cube Anywhere was a finalist of the Mobile Premier Awards in 2011.

Worked for several years (2005–2009) in IT Governance and Project and Portfolio Management tooling, with technical leadership roles in major projects in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, France, and Brazil.

Wrote a book about the Python programming language – in 2001, before Python was cool :)

Founded the Portuguese chapter of the Google Developer Groups (GDG; then called GTUG).