Our mission
Every year, companies waste over $1 trillion as developers spend up to 40% of their time on mundane, non-code-producing tasks.
🚀 At Rely.io, we’re here to change that. Our mission is to empower organizations by fostering a culture of service ownership and engineering excellence.
We believe in a future where the best software companies can focus on what truly matters — building great products that have a real impact in the world — without getting slowed down by complex tools, processes, and repetitive tasks. Our vision is simple: help engineers build software faster and better, so they can drive innovation and create a better future.
To bring this vision to life, we’re building the next generation of intelligent tools and automation that supercharge developer productivity and eliminate unnecessary toil.
Our journey starts with the most important product of the software ecosystem: an end to end Internal Developer Portal (IDP) that takes the complexity out of building, scaling, and operating software by embedding all the important developer flows in one pane of glass and providing golden paths with embedded best practices and templates.
🚀 At Rely.io, we’re here to change that. Our mission is to empower organizations by fostering a culture of service ownership and engineering excellence.
We believe in a future where the best software companies can focus on what truly matters — building great products that have a real impact in the world — without getting slowed down by complex tools, processes, and repetitive tasks. Our vision is simple: help engineers build software faster and better, so they can drive innovation and create a better future.
To bring this vision to life, we’re building the next generation of intelligent tools and automation that supercharge developer productivity and eliminate unnecessary toil.
Our journey starts with the most important product of the software ecosystem: an end to end Internal Developer Portal (IDP) that takes the complexity out of building, scaling, and operating software by embedding all the important developer flows in one pane of glass and providing golden paths with embedded best practices and templates.
Who we are
Our team is a group of world class engineers who share a common goal: to build a product that engineers love. We're committed to creating a workplace culture that's diverse, inclusive, and fosters collaboration and innovation.
We have raised $3.5M+ from top-tier firms like J12 Ventures, Shilling Capital Partners, TechstarsNYC, and TheVentureCity, as well as from notable angels. We're dedicated to using their support to drive our mission forward and make a meaningful impact in the world of engineering.
We're driven by our vision to lead the industry with platform engineering best practices.
📍 Location
We’re remote-first and welcome candidates from anywhere in Europe! We have yearly off-sites where we fly the whole team out to a new location so we can meet in person, get to know each other better, kick off important projects, and have fun!
We have raised $3.5M+ from top-tier firms like J12 Ventures, Shilling Capital Partners, TechstarsNYC, and TheVentureCity, as well as from notable angels. We're dedicated to using their support to drive our mission forward and make a meaningful impact in the world of engineering.
We're driven by our vision to lead the industry with platform engineering best practices.
📍 Location
We’re remote-first and welcome candidates from anywhere in Europe! We have yearly off-sites where we fly the whole team out to a new location so we can meet in person, get to know each other better, kick off important projects, and have fun!
A team of experts in platform engineering and engineering efficiency

José Velez
Chief Executive Officer
Jose has a background in software engineering, having built internal observability tools for the largest company in Portugal. He holds a master’s from IST and went through Techstars NYC in 2021 with his previous AIOps startup.

Chief Product Officer
Samir previously led the log management product at Datadog, generating over $500M+ in ARR. He also led the AI engine (WatchDog) that powers all of Datadog’s observability products and was the CEO of an observability company before joining Datadog.
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Ian kavanagh
Chief Operating Officer
Ian brings over 10 years of experience building developer tools and internal developer platforms. He was previously Head of Product for developer experience and infrastructure at Glovo, where he built tools used by thousands of engineers to improve productivity, operational excellence, and reduce costs — including their IDP.

Tiago Barbosa
Head of Developer Relations
Tiago was previously the maintainer of Backstage’s most adopted plugin—PagerDuty’s—and led developer relations at PagerDuty. Having worked as a developer in large teams like Microsoft, he’s now on a mission to help engineering teams achieve an outstanding developer experience at Rely.io.
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Acacio Cruz
Board Member
Acácio is a Senior Director of Engineering at Google and led the creation of Google’s internal developer portal. He invested personally in Rely.io and joined the Board of Director to leverage his learnings and expertise to help Rely.io create the category leading product.

Luka Banderet
Board Director
Luca is the Managing Director at J12 Ventures, one of Sweden’s leading VCs backing AI and data-driven startups. He has a track record of scaling companies, having co-founded and led NOWO, which went public in 2021.
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Our founding team

Emanuel Silva
Engineering Manager

Gonçalo Antunes
Senior Backend Engineer

Andre Cavalheiro
Senior Product Engineer

Alex Abiola
UX Designer

Senior Product Engineer

Joao Brandao
Front-end developer

Tiago Seabra
Senior Backend Engineer

Juliana Dornelles
Finance & Operations Manager
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We're backed by incredible investors

Ricardo Oliveira
Co-founder & CTO of ThousandEyes (By Cisco)

CTO at Microsoft Netherlands

VP Engineering at Wix.com

Liam Boogar-Azoulay
CRO at Scaleway

Matthew Fornaciari
Gremlin co-founder

Bruno Mota
CEO Devoteam

Daniel Maher
Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog

Pedro Torres
Co-founder of CTOs & Senior Director of Engineering at Salsify

Co-founder & CEO at Validio

Steve Boogar
Product Leader at WorkBoard

Rémy Saissy
Principal Engineer at Teads

Rahaf Harfoush
Executive Director at Red Thread

Jesse Morgan
Creative Director at FilterFive
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