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 accomplished 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