Manuel Gomes

Hello! I'm Manuel, a technologist (and a fair few other things!) currently living in Aveiro, Portugal.

Pursuits and Impact

I have a very broad variety of interests. Some, I pursue in a structured way, and some of those result in organisations or professional practices. The most salient of these are:

Complexity and systems thinking

As a species, our greatest challenges and blindspots are often rooted in the complexity of our systems and societies.

Developing tools to approach such intractable - dare I say wicked - problems is the focus of Praxorium

Neurodiversity

Some of the most spectacularly talented and accompished individuals I have met have been neurodivergent.

I co-founded Neurability Foundation to help evolve modern organizations to foster and benefit from neurodivergents’ talents.

Software Engineering

I am currently engaged as a product engineer at Dropsolid, helping create world-leading digital experiences prizing data sovereignty and privacy with open source and open standards.

Focus on platform engineering and devops toolchains.

Other areas of interest

  • the application of agility to new fields, and scenarios where it is not usually assumed to be a good match (e.g. compliance, organisational design, HR, marketing)
  • scaling agility by organisational decomposition, exaptation and re-combination, rather than by aggregation (i.e. scaling the organisation to agility, rather than agility to the organisation)
  • rethinking the nature of work, personal and organisational development for the 21st century
  • communication, facilitation, and coaching