Master's in Informatics and Computing Engineering

Continuation of my Bachelor degree.

Took a break for a whole semester to travel, so I'm finishing it 1 semester late.

Master's degree - Exchange Program

1 Semester abroad as part of my Master's degree.

Learning about Blockchain technologies, Financial Technologies, Recent Advancements in Deep Learning and Digital Design.

Bachelor in Informatics and Computing Engineering

Relevant coursework includes: Algorithms and Data Structures, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Databases, Operative Systems, Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, among others.

Highschool, Science and Technology

During highschool, among others, I learned about Math, Physics and Chemistry. I participated in numerous contests and events, winning prizes in many of them. In the end, the average of my grades rounded to 20 out of 20. In the final national exams, I had 20 at Physics, Chemistry and Maths.

It was in my 12th grade that I began programming, in Physics class with an Arduino. I immediately took a liking to it and, later on, decided to learn more in University.

Improved the reliability of Anchorage's pricing module for cryptoassets, used company-wide, by introducing a fallback mechanism for prices.

Exploring ways to accurately and reliably estimate the price of NFTs through ML and Deep Learning algorithms, for my Masters Thesis.

Project that started with the goal of bringing Virtual Reality entertainment to Portugal and make it acessible to everyone, through our VR arcade: Gate Alpha.

Since then, we have been actively exploring new ways to expand our business through VR based solutions.

Migrated SparkAR insights to a new database system, by setting up the data schemas, IG event listeners, GraphQL interface and Dashboard UI.

Refined the migration's onboarding process, with Meta-wide impact, by capturing missing steps, updating wikis and suggesting optimizations.

Worked with little guidance and incomplete documentation, by independently looking through code and connecting with other teams.

Simplified the Log Analysis process for on-call engineers, by creating tools to prepare, display and help analyze the trillions of Log data records.

Standardized the process for multiple teams, by leveraging feedback from various sources and making the solution extensible.

Understood the Log Analysis problem, explored solutions and defined the overall project architecture by writing a Design Document.

Helped the teacher of the Algorithm Design and Analysis Course (FEUP's Integrated Master's in Informatics and Computing Engineering 2nd year) in assisting the students with their projects, outside classes.

Created a tool for fetching, parsing and validating students’ submissions on HackerRank contests, to be used in the current and future occurrences of the Algorithm Design and Analysis course.

Reduced the time & monetary costs of creating browser games inside Mindera Gaming, by contributing to a reusable 2D game engine in Golang.

Extended the physics engine and improved collision detection, by taking inspiration in Box2D and Chipmunk engines’ implementations.

Currently optimizing a team’s billing process by developing a Python robot using RPA technology.

Automating repetitive and time-consuming human interaction with MS Access, Excel, Outlook and websites

Helped the teacher of the Algorithm Design and Analysis Course (FEUP's Integrated Master's in Informatics and Computing Engineering 2nd year) in assisting the students with their projects, outside classes.

Prepared problems in HackerRank to challenge students about: graphs, greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, backtracking, strings.

Helping the teacher of the Computer Laboratory Course (FEUP's Integrated Master's in Informatics and Computing Engineering 2nd year) in assisting the students during their classes.

The course focuses in low level programming (C and Assembly x86), applied to program the hardware controllers of peripherals (such as mouse, keyboard, serial port ...).

Head of projects in NIAEFEUP, the computer science student group from my university.

Responsible for maintaining past projects, making sure current projects are successfull, and considering/allocating resources for new projects.

Created the first Capture the Flag team from my faculty by bringing together people interested in cyber security.

Promoted learning and sharing for a group of 24, by organizing weekly training sessions and actively participating in online challenges and CTFs.

Week during which 25 engineering students were given the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team, accompanied by senior engineers from Critical Software, and develop a project across various domains.

I worked in a team of 5 through building a robot with vision, being in charge of the project architecture and technologies used. Was responsible for writing modules to ease development.

It was a great experience to work outside my usual scope of solely programming, dealing with networks, electronics and mechanics components.

Selected as one of the 50 Huawei scholarship winners among 3000 portuguese students.

This program's aim was to recognize and award students for their academic and extra-curricular path

IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of up to 3 IEEE Student members compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems. Our submission for each problem is evaluated through unitary tests, and our score reflects our performance in each task.

It was a great event! Played a lot of FIFA, filled myself with lots of food and somehow ranked 1st in Portugal!

International Game Jam where, in 48 hours, in addition to creating a game, you must also develop a business plan for it.

We qualified for the final phase in Brazil through popular voting, where, along with the winners from each region, we had the opportunity to pitch our game.

Award given to the 22 University of Porto students with the best grades' average on their 1st year.

It was a huge honor to receive this prize and be invited to attend the University of Porto's Aniversary Cerimony.

Having won the portuguese national contest, my team got the right to participate in this european competition. The theme and our submission were the same, but now we were competing with the best team of each european country. To our surprise, all the jurys unanimously voted our submission to be the best. And so we won the contest and a trip to London!

For this contest we had to conduct an experiment, document it and create a video in response to a given challenge. For my group this was "Playing with chemicals reactions", and we decided to make our own biodiesel from used cooking oil. The whole video editing was done by me.

This is a competition about geology that comprises the whole country. First there is a selection inside each school, then a local selection, then a regional one and, finally, a national. I got to the national phase and got 6th place in it.

Pmate is a national Mathematics competition that takes place once every year. I started participating in my 3rd grade and, since then, kept going consistently. Overall, this competition was a great means of learning. It definitely had a positive impact in my school performance, allowing me to attain a more deep understanding of maths.

This is the Informatics student group of FEUP's Student Association, composed by students of the Informatics and Computing Engineering course. I joined it in my second year looking to work on real projects and learn new skills.

I entered this group in the pursuit of delving into the area of videogames and, in it, I found many people who shared my passion. This group is responsible for organizing the Game Dev Meets in Porto, where all the enthusiasts of game creation are invited to appear, with the objective of creating a community for exchange of knowledge and experiences. In this meets, I was able to have a clear grasp at the state of game development in the north of Portugal.

I joined this student branch as soon as I entered University. In it, I got to meet many new people from different courses and organize a whole range of events for the University community. These included talks, events, activities, competitions, workshops, among others. I also got to put to practice some of the knowledge I gained from online courses, teaching in workshops.

Talk A Bit is a non-profit tech conference organized by graduating Software Engineering students from FEUP, focusing on the social impact of technology. I helped with the logistics, check-in balcon, organization and meals. It was a new experience which also allowed me to better grasp how this kind of events are created and managed.