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Experience, Rigor, and a User-Centric Approach.
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Hello, we’re Altar.io

You’re here to build something meaningful, and we’re here to help make it happen. As product experts, designers, and engineers, we plug into your team to sharpen your vision, cut through noise, and get you from idea to traction with the leanest, smartest path forward.
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Why Us

Because we’ve been in your shoes.

Altar.io was built by ex-founders who’ve launched startups, failed fast, raised capital, exited, and everything in between. That journey taught us the hard truths of turning vision into products that actually succeed.

We don’t just build software. We partner like co-founders. We challenge assumptions, validate ideas, and build lean, always with your users front and centre.

The outcome? Products that raise funding, get featured in places like Forbes and Fast Company, win awards, and grow into scaleups.

What makes it possible is our team, a tight crew of product minds, UX/UI specialists, and engineers based in Portugal, who care about your success as much as you do.

We’re here to build with you. And we’re not going anywhere until it works.

Beyond work

We regularly organize all-hand events to meet as a team and do fun stuff together. We also lunch together or go out to listen to our favourite music (random fact: many of our Altarions play in a band 🎸 🥁)

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Meet the Founders

Our founding team started their journeys in the corporate world. They then moved on to build their own startups, before coming together to form Altar.io. They studied lean product development through building startups from the ground up with very few resources. This is why, when you build a product with us, it will always be streamlined to the most important features for your user.

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Daniel de Castro Ruivo
Co-Founder & CEO
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André Lopes
Co-Founder
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Paolo Dotta
Co-Founder
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João Ribeiro
Co-Founder
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André Pinto
Partner & VP of Front-End
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Cláudio Teixeira
Partner & CTO
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Rui Lourenço
Partner & CMO

Meet the Team

We have a rigorous screening process to identify the best talent, from inception, UX/UI design, and development. We are always on the lookout for great problem solvers with passion and drive; these are the types of people we want to work with and learn from ourselves.

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Guilherme Lopes
Chief Operations Officer
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Ana Páris
Head of Admin
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João Amaral
Chief of Staff
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Francisco Pranto
Junior Admin/Operations Manager
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Ricardo Luiz
Director of Product
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Samanta Carvalho
Product Manager
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Mariana Almeida
Product Manager
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Simon Tadeu
Product Manager
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Lilla Horváth
Product Manager
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Alexandra Morodo
UX/UI Designer
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Jon-Paul Unwin
Head of Delivery
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Pedro Alves
Project Manager
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Mariia Mieimankulova
Scrum Master
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Manuel Faustino
Full-Stack Developer
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João Cortes
Full-Stack Developer
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João Lourenço
Full-Stack Developer
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Rui Lopes
Full-Stack Developer
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Tiago Cunha
Back-End Developer
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Mariana Silva
Front-End Styling Developer
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Daniel Silva
Full-Stack Developer
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João Cosme
Full-Stack Developer
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João Campos
Full-Stack Developer
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João Freitas
Full-Stack Developer
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Hasnain Haider
Full-Stack Developer
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Jamie Russell-Curtis
Head of Content
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Filipe Matos
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
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Pedro Homero
Lead Recruiter

Become an Altarion

Expect endless challenges and rewards. Opportunities to work with people from all over the world. A team of life-long learners, fueled by collaboration. A culture that fosters innovation and values a happy workplace.