// about-us

Platform engineers. Built for regulated teams.

// Lisbon & Porto, since 2018

We started Out.Cloud because we'd seen too many talented engineering teams running fast on the wrong track, shipping features into infrastructure that couldn't hold the weight. We build the foundation first. Always.

// Platform Engineering · AIOps · FinOps · Sovereign Cloud

// what does out.cloud mean?

Five meanings. One philosophy.

Outperform
Outperform
Outreach
Outreach
Outlast
Outlast
Outpace
Outpace
Outside the box.
Outside the box.

"Out.Cloud is more than engineers: it's a collaboration model that extends and elevates your organisation's capabilities."

// outperform. outpace. outlast.
// the team

The people behind the platforms.

A small, senior team. Every client works directly with the engineer who designed their platform, not an account manager who relays messages.

Nelson Ratinho
Pedro Fragoso
Tiezer Melo
Rafael Ascensão
Tiago Barradas
João Cardoso
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Nelson Ratinho
CEO and Founder

Drives Outcloud's strategy and long-term platform vision for regulated enterprises.

Nelson Ratinho
Nelson Ratinho
CEO and Founder

Drives Outcloud's strategy and long-term platform vision for regulated enterprises.

Pedro Fragoso
Pedro Fragoso
CTO and Founder

Leads technical direction across services, ensuring architecture decisions stay aligned with business outcomes.

Tiezer Melo
Tiezer Melo
Senior Platform Engineer

Builds resilient cloud platforms and delivery foundations for high-compliance teams.

Tiago Barradas
Tiago Barradas
Senior AWS Engineer

Designs and scales AWS workloads with a focus on reliability, governance, and operational clarity.

Rafael Ascensão
Rafael Ascensão
Cloud Solutions Architect

Translates complex platform requirements into pragmatic cloud solutions that teams can operate at scale.

João Cardoso
João Cardoso
Senior Azure Engineer

Implements secure Azure architectures that meet enterprise controls without slowing delivery.

// our story

Where we came from.
Where we're going.

// Chapter 01, Origin, 2018

Built from frustration,
not from a business plan.

Out.Cloud was born from a specific kind of frustration: watching talented engineering teams at Portuguese banks, telcos and energy companies spend more time managing infrastructure than building products. The founders had seen this pattern repeat across the enterprise, not a lack of engineers or ambition, but a missing layer. The platform layer.

The company started as a small team of platform engineers in Lisbon with one clear thesis: if you build the right internal platform, you get developer speed, compliance and cost efficiency as a package, not a trade-off. We've been proving that thesis right ever since.

// Chapter 02, Today, 2026

A specialist team.
Enterprise scale.

Today, Out.Cloud is a focused team of Platform Engineers, SREs and cloud architects working with regulated enterprises across Portugal, Spain and the UK. We're part of the Findmore Group, which gives us the reach for large programmes while keeping the team small enough that every client works directly with a senior engineer.

Eight enterprise clients. Two offices. One ambition: make platform engineering the default for every engineering organisation that's serious about scale, compliance and speed, in that order.

// what we stand for

Four things we won't compromise on.

We own the outcome, not just the deliverable.

We don't ship code and wave goodbye. We measure ourselves by whether the platform is still performing 12 months after go-live, because we're usually still around to see it.

Open standards. No lock-in. Ever.

Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Backstage. We build on open standards because your platform should outlast any vendor relationship, including ours.

European by choice, not by accident.

Data sovereignty and GDPR compliance aren't compliance checkboxes for us, they're architectural decisions we make from day one. Our clients operate in regulated markets. So do we.

Engineers first. Everything else second.

The metric we care about most is how long it takes a new engineer to ship their first feature to production. If that number is high, the platform has failed, no matter what the dashboards say.

// where to find us

Two cities. One team.

Lisbon

Av. D. João II, Lt 42, Office 602
Parque das Nações, 1990-095 Lisboa
HQ

Porto

Rua Júlio Dinis Nº247
4º Piso, 4050-324 Porto
Engineering Hub

Trusted by leading enterprises

// work with us

We're a small team.
We like it that way.

It means you always talk to the engineer, not the account manager.
Book 30 minutes. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.