aiCTO & Co-Founder

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• : Collaborated with co-founders to define technical and business strategies, aligning product development with financial goals.
• : Built and mentored a high-performing technical team, overseeing recruitment, onboarding, and professional growth.
• : Designed a scalable, cost-effective microservices infrastructure on AWS, ensuring robust, secure, and high-performing platform capabilities while optimising operational costs.
• : Evaluated and implemented advanced AI tools to enhance platform capabilities, focusing on automation and intelligent agent incorporation.
• : Interfaced with investors and clients to refine product offerings and secure necessary resources.

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• : Reduced course creation time from weeks to minutes through AI innovations and a robust, scalable, and cost-effective tech infrastructure.
• : Collaborated intensively with designers and educational specialists to deliver a feature-rich, user-centric platform, receiving positive feedback on its design and effectiveness.
• : Fostered a culture of adaptability and iterative progress, enabling the team to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving technological landscape.

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• Streamlined Product Development: Spearheaded the creation and refinement of the MVP for a contract automation platform, collaborating with cross- functional teams to implement iterative releases and gather valuable feedback from early adopters.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Led a team of designers, AI developers, and engineers, ensuring a collaborative environment that fostered agile methodologies, innovation, and problem-solving.

• Connecting Stakeholders: Actively engaged with early adopters to understand user needs and validate platform features while supporting investor conversations by articulating technical strategies and aligning them with business goals.

• Architecting Scalable Solutions: Designed and implemented a robust, microservices-based infrastructure on AWS, ensuring scalability, security, and integration readiness.

• Driving Operational Efficiency: Automated workflows and optimised system architecture, improving the platform’s flexibility and adaptability for future growth.

• Developed and launched the MVP of a next-generation contract automation platform, enabling iterative feature releases and facilitating adoption by early users.

• Built a secure, scalable IT framework that supported multiple iterations and feedback loops during the platform’s development.

• Fostered a team culture of collaboration, adaptability, and innovation, ensuring consistent progress and alignment with company goals.

My work at Bondify exemplified how technical excellence and strategic vision can empower teams, drive efficiency, and deliver solutions that truly matter.

• Delivered an industry-disrupting platform capable of generating human-like digital models for the fashion and apparel industry.
• Responsible for hiring, leading, coaching, managing and growing a multidisciplinary team of 10+ people in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Cloud Software Engineering and QC.
• Accountable for the design, management, delivery, quality, availability, and performance of the company’s technology backbone, encompassing digital fashion, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, R&D, rapid PoCs & MVPs, and Software Development.

Led and developed a large scale NLP Recommender System. Worked on: + Software requirements + System architecture + Infrastructure maintenance + Development + Testing + Evaluation + Deployment + Serverless Applications

Used: + Natural Language Processing (NLP) ++ Information Extraction (IE) ++ Information Retrieval (IR) ++ Text & Data Mining

Developed in: + Python + DynamoDB + Lambdas + API Gateway + SQS + AWS stack...

Setting up low-maintenance, high-quality and efficient data pipelines. Collecting and preparing datasets for ingestion and gold standards for accessing systems performance. Worked on: + development + testing + optimization

Developed in: + Python

Researching and development of various modules to collect and prepare multilingual data for both translators and machine translation systems. Worked on: + research + software requirements + software design + development + testing + deployment + optimization + scientific publications

Deployed Software (publicly available): + iCompileCorpora: a web application to create multilingual web corpora. + PreProcessor: processes and annotates raw textual data. + STSModule: computes the semantic similarity between sentences and documents. + DSMModule: measures and ranks both sentences and documents based on their internal degree of similarity.

Used: + Natural Language Processing (NLP) ++ Information Extraction (IE) ++ Information Retrieval (IR) + Statistics + Machine Learning (ML) + Machine Translation (MT)

Developed in: + Java + R + Python

Secondments/ Internships: + Translated s.r.l.: Oct 2015 – Dec 2015 (Rome, Italy) ++ Visiting Translated s.r.l. on a secondment via the European funded project EXPERT. + University of Wolverhampton - Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 (Wolverhampton, UK) ++ Visiting the University of Wolverhampton on a secondment via the European funded project EXPERT.

• Programming and Algorithms

And before that, at: + Escola Profissional da Lousã - Sep 2010 – Jul 2012 (Coimbra, Portugal) ++ Operating Systems, Communication Networks and Computers Architecture