~ samuel-martins $ whoami

Samuel Martins.

Co-founder & CTO of Prodsmart (acquired by Autodesk). Serial founder — from web studios to motorcycle dealerships to smart factories. Based in Lisbon.

I've been building things since the early 2000s — from running my own Linux server at home (urban.homelinux.org, ask me about the Geek Code) to co-founding a manufacturing tech company that got acquired by a Fortune 500.

Along the way, I founded Niuvisions, a web design studio, ran LxMotos, a Kawasaki motorcycle dealership in Lisbon, and co-founded Prodsmart, a cloud MES platform that digitized factory floors worldwide — a journey from Lisbon to San Francisco, through 500 Global (Batch 22), and into Autodesk where the product became Fusion Operations.

I'm a generalist at heart — equally at home in the terminal, the boardroom, or a factory floor.

3
Companies founded
1
Exit to Fortune 500
5
Awards & recognitions
25+
Years in tech
2022 – 2025

Sr. Engineering Manager · Autodesk

Post-acquisition leadership. Prodsmart became Fusion Operations — scaling a Portuguese startup into a global Autodesk product.

2012 – 2022

Co-founder & CTO · Prodsmart

Real-time MES on mobile. Democratizing industrial management through a high-tech, low-cost approach. 500 Global Batch 22. Expanded to San Francisco. Acquired by Autodesk.

Acquired
2009 – 2012

Founder · LxMotos

Kawasaki motorcycle dealership in Lisbon. From software to horsepower — built and ran the business before selling to pursue the next chapter.

Sold
2008 – 2012

Software Engineer & DevOps · Crazydog

Systems administration and software engineering.

2005 – 2008

System Administrator · IST (Instituto Superior Técnico)

Dep. Física infrastructure and systems administration.

2004

Founder · Niuvisions

Web design studio. First venture into entrepreneurship — brief but formative.

Closed

500 Global Batch 22

Silicon Valley accelerator (2017) — sales acceleration with Prodsmart

Caixa Empreender Award 2016

National entrepreneurship award for Prodsmart

Startup Lisboa Boost

Early-stage acceleration and support for Prodsmart

Audi/SIC Notícias Nação Inovadora Awards

Recognition for innovation in Portuguese technology

Best Mashup — Codebits

"Sapo Boa Vida" — optimized night-out planner. Portugal's biggest hackathon.

Prodsmart → Fusion Operations

Cloud MES that digitized factory floors worldwide — acquired by Autodesk

LxMotos

Kawasaki motorcycle dealership in Lisbon (2009–2012)

Sapo Boa Vida

Best Mashup at Codebits — night-out optimizer with geolocation

Statistical Distributions App

Mobile probability calculator for common distributions

Geek Code v3.12 — circa 2003, urban.homelinux.org
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