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José DA COSTA

Professional Skills

10 skills refined over 26 years, between hands-on practice and formal education

Each skill was built across projects, teams and critical IS, as much as school benches and professional certifications.

10 Featured skills

Hard Skills
5
Fullstack Development
Tech
Software Development

18 years of successive roles, each bringing its own stack. On Python (FastAPI, Flask), on modern TypeScript (Next.js, Prisma, Bun), on the JVM (Spring, Kotlin), and on PHP (Symfony, Magento, Joomla, Zend). Keep the posture of an operating CTO who codes, reviews, and arbitrates senior technical choices.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerAuto-entrepreneurCelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsGRSP AquitainePichetSmileBTSMaster
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4.4/5· Mastery
Software & System Architecture
Tech
Architecture & Design

From PHP monoliths to cloud-native B2B SaaS platforms. 11 years of architectural practice, Master in Software Engineering, Lead Symfony and Lead Magento roles, now CTO at ACCENSEO.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerCelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsPichetSmileMaster
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4.2/5· Mastery
Data, AI & Machine Learning
Tech
Data & AI

RAG and LLM workflows at ACCENSEO, ML scoring at AdsPower, Ligneurs ETL at Pichet. A skill grown from real business needs, not from the hype cycle.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerAuto-entrepreneurCelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsGRSP AquitainePichetSmileBTSMaster
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4.1/5· Mastery
DevOps, Cloud & Production Industrialization
Tech
DevOps & Cloud

CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and continuity at Pichet, Smile, and ACCENSEO. AWS plus OVH VPS Docker on the current infra. Industrialize delivery, observability, and incident response on production SaaS systems.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerEuropean SourcingMedialeadsGRSP AquitainePichetSmileBTSMaster
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4.1/5· Mastery
Application Security & Compliance
Tech
Security

OWASP reflexes since the Zend years, network security from BTS, IT contract law and GDPR awareness from the Master and CTO roles. Read a security-sensitive contract and harden a SaaS shipping financial or personal data.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

CelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsGRSP AquitainePichetSmileBTSMaster
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3.0/5· Solid
Soft Skills
5
Leadership & Team Management
Soft
Leadership & Management

Build a team that survives every contributor. 5 years at Pichet (Technical Lead to Engineering Manager on the ESB perimeter), CEO/CTO at ACCENSEO since 2024, active CTO Craft cohort.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerCelianeMedialeadsPichetPSPOSAFeSmileMasterMBA
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4.3/5· Mastery
Problem Solving & Adaptability
Soft
Problem Solving & Adaptability

Six education cycles from BEP to MBA and 18 years across very different stacks. Top 1 and Top 2 competency frequencies in the portfolio: diagnose unfamiliar problems fast, learn what is needed, and converge under time pressure.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerAuto-entrepreneurCelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsPichetPSPOSAFeSmileBAC ProBEPMBA
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4.3/5· Mastery
Project Piloting & Agile Methodologies
Soft
Project Management

MBA Strategic Project Management plus PSPO and SAFe 5 certifications, backed by five years as Project Manager and Product Owner at Pichet. Frame, plan, and steer multi-team programs with risk control and stakeholder alignment.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerAuto-entrepreneurCelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsPichetPSPOSAFeSmileMasterMBA
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4.2/5· Mastery
Strategic Vision & Technical Direction
Soft
Strategy, Finance & Growth

CEO/Founder of ACCENSEO and Celiane plus MBA in Strategic Project Management. Defend technical vision in executive committees, link product, finance, and roadmap, and pilot SaaS B2B economics from pricing to ARR.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOAdsPowerAuto-entrepreneurCelianePichetMasterMBA
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4.0/5· Strong
Pedagogy & Communication & Collaboration
Soft
Communication & Collaboration

Run team rituals (monthly 1:1s, sprint reviews, blameless post-mortems), document to transmit (RFCs, versioned ADRs, runbooks, playbooks), train ACCENSEO apprentices from zero to fully autonomous in 3 months. Five years coordinating cross-functional teams at Pichet, CEO/CTO ACCENSEO since June 2024.

BasicGrowingSolidStrongMastery

Acquired in :

ACCENSEOCelianeEuropean SourcingMedialeadsGRSP AquitainePichetPSPOSAFeSmileTOEICBAC ProMCBEPBTSMasterMBA
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3.6/5· Strong

Do these skills line up with what you need?

If you are running a context where this mix of engineering depth and management calls really matters - shaping an engineering team, securing a roadmap, owning architectural calls, defending a technical vision at executive level - drop me a line. I would rather check together whether the scope, the level of responsibility and the ambition fit before going further.

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