///About

Hands-onAI Leader.

AI Team Lead and SaaS engineering leader who has shipped 20+ production AI/ML systems. 15 years in the industry, 7+ as CTO. Built and directed AI, ML, and software teams of up to 30 engineers while staying deep in the code every day.

How I Work

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Coaching-first leadership

85% first-year retention, 12 promotions to senior/staff

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Architecture + implementation

Hands-on delivery alongside the team — never detached

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AI governance built in

Guardrails, explainability, and responsible AI from day one

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Software 3.0 mindset

LLM-native systems, agentic workflows, modern MLOps pipelines

20+

Production AI/ML Systems Shipped

15+

Years in Software Engineering

50+

SaaS Products Delivered

90+

Engineers Led & Mentored

85%

First-Year Engineer Retention

Published Research Papers

///Summary

My toolkit spans modern LLM and agent stacks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel), RAG architectures, MLOps, and the full Python / SQL / VectorDB / NoSQL data layer.

I lead with a coaching mindset: Software 3.0 execution, clear KPIs, tight agile cycles, embedded team standards, responsible AI governance, and translating ambiguous business goals into measurable user outcomes.

///Education & Research

MSc Software Engineering

M-ITI · University of Madeira, in partnership with CMU · Score 18/20 (EQF 7)

Thesis: Hudumia — A platform to support spontaneous volunteers under emergency scenarios

Published Research

Towards a Measurement Framework for Tools Ceiling and Threshold

Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (2014)

An Introduction for System Developers to Volunteer Roles in Crisis Response and Recovery

ISCRAM13, Baden-Baden (2013)

CrisisTracker: Crowdsourced Social Media Curation for Disaster Awareness

IBM Journal of Research and Development (2013)

Certifications

Gold Member · DeepLearning.AI

///Earlier Career

Research Assistant — PaaS / Software Engineering

Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) · 2013 — 2014

Designed controlled experiments applying mixed-effects regression and ANOVA to evaluate API usability and developer productivity. Engineered eye-tracking acquisition systems (Tobii SDK).

Front-end Developer / GIS Developer

CrisisTracker OpenSource Project (IBM) · 2012 — 2013

Architected a real-time geospatial visualization platform for emergency event detection, later adopted by IBM Australia. Built interactive mapping interfaces and asynchronous streaming pipelines for Twitter data.