Afonso / 2017 → now
AFONSOFERNANDES
I'm Afonso, a product-minded builder. I founded a smart home technology company in 2017 and sold it five years later in a six-figure deal.
I'm Afonso, a product-minded builder. I founded a smart home technology company in 2017 and sold it five years later in a six-figure deal.
Today I work at the intersection of product and AI, figuring out what to build and why, with the technical depth and business experience to actually deliver it.
© Afonso Fernandes 2026Oporto · PT
02 · Timeline
The journey.
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Pre-2017
Sports Science
An atypical background
I started with a degree in Sports Science, which has nothing to do with anything that came after. But curiosity was already there, and self-teaching came naturally. The real education started when I began building things I had no business building yet.
self-taughtsystems thinking