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Curriculum Vitae

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer - Alter Frame [2015 - 2018]

Management platform for electronic gift vouchers

Analysis, design and development of a platform to manage gift vouchers, manage the list of stores where those vouchers can be used, interface with payment services, and analyse transaction data.

  • Analysis of requirements, analysis of functional specification, selection of technology stack, and design of software architecture;
  • Team leading (4 person) and technical project management;
  • Technologies: Java 8, Spring, MariaDB, Gitlab, Gradle, Redmine

Satellite signal mapping and performance visualisation

Maintenance and development of new features for an application that simulates the coverage, and visualises the performance, of signal for communication satellites.

  • Analysis of functional specifications and feature software design;
  • Implementation of new features, maintenance, and legacy code refactoring;
  • Team leading (3 person) and technical project management.
  • Technologies: Java 8, JavaFX, Gitlab, Gradle, Redmine

Digital forms for test auditing power plants

Design and implementation of a POC software to manage digital forms to audit power plants. The software tracks the progress of the audit to all the systems and equipments on a power plant, and manage which users should oversee the test of which system and/or equipment.

  • Analysis of functional specifications and design of software architecture;
  • Implementation of a Java desktop application using the Vert.x tool-kit.
  • Technologies: Java 8, JavaFX, Vert.x, SQLite, ORMlite, Gitlab, Gradle, Redmine

Software for car electrical wiring architecture modelling and testing

Maintenance of legacy software and development of new features for computer-aided design software suite that models and tests electrical wiring for the automobile industry.

  • Analysis of functional specifications;
  • Analysis, maintenance and confined refactors of legacy code;
  • Implementation of helper classes to work around common Swing limitations;
  • Improve software modularisation.
  • Technologies: Java 7, AWT, Swing, Vaadin, Hibernate, Oracle, Glassfish, Gitlab, Maven, Redmine

Audit of insurance software

The objective of the performed audit was to provide the insurance company a report on the technical state of their software, the technical root causes for existing issues and the assurance of maintainability of the software application.

Consultant in Software Engineering - Anubis Networks (via Aubay) [2014 - 2015]

SPAM detection software for SMS

Development of the SMS spam detection component for a spam and fraud control solution.

  • Analysis of pattern match algorithms, their design, implementation, and integration in the main component;
  • Implementation of the operation and management external interface of the spam detection component;
  • Implementation of a basic web application.
  • Technologies: C, C++, Google Test, Hbase, Java, Hadoop, MapReduce2, RE2, HTML, JavaScript, Git, GCC, GDB, Make, CMake

Software Engineer - Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks, Coriant [2005 - 2014]

Optical networks project

Software development for the HIT7300 DWDM transport platform main controller. Coordination of a 9 person team. Responsible for a feature set.

  • Development of software to evaluate and apply new configurations of the network element’s transport management and traffic protection modules;
  • Analysis of new features, tailoring new requirements to the existing software and product architecture;
  • Responsible for a set of features involving several teams, managing inter-team planning and coordinating interfaces between them;
  • Driver for process changes towards better analysis, design, development and maintenance practices.
  • Technologies: J2SE, Clear Case, Subversion, Eclipse, Ant, AHK, UML

IPTV / Digital TV

Software development for the SURPASS home entertainment solution, mainly focused on set-top-box middleware. Coordination of a 6 person team, responsible for software design and maintenance.

  • Development of software for management and distribution of video on demand contents; back-end for bulk purchase and playlist synchronisation services;
  • Design and development of a shopping basket, playlist and virtual wallet applications for a set-top-box environment;
  • Feature customisation focusing on client requirements; redesign and decoupling of software modules, to minimise resource dependencies and increase performance;
  • Development of a client side algorithm for balancing requests to video servers and support for proprietary RTSP redirection mechanisms;
  • Redesign and development of remote video recording mediation software, in order to support a multi-site back-end architecture, synchronise with multiple program guides and minimise server storage for recorded programs.
  • Technologies: J2SE, RTSP, Eclipse, Ant, Perforce, UML, REST

Voucher management system

Software analysis for customisation requests of Charge@Once TopUp, a voucher management system for mobile service providers.

  • Technologies: J2EE, JCA, Eclipse

Grupo Eurocel - Web designer, Helpdesk support [1998 - 2005]

Design, development and maintenance of websites for the several businesses of Grupo Eurocel. Also responsible for the maintenance of the company’s workstations and small computer network.

  • Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Education

Licentiate Degree in Informatics Engineering

  • Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon [2000 - 2005]
  • Area of expertise: Architecture, Systems and Computer Networks

Postgraduate in Informatics Engineering

  • Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon [2005 - 2006]

Professional Training

  • Distributed Systems Development with Java, Learning Tree [2006]
  • Agile Introduction Training, NSN [2006]

Language skills

Portuguese

  • Mother language [C2]

English

  • Proficient, spoken [C2] and written [C2]

Other Activities and Interests

  • Founder partner of a non-profit youth organisation.
  • Member and contributor of Radio Zero from March 2005 to January 2014. Host of oldest Portuguese podcast still running, and oldest Radio Zero show, during that time.
  • Cultural interests in areas such as new media, sociology, psychology, economics and political philosophy.