Resume
My professional experience and education
Experience
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Systems Engineer
Cloudflare– Present Lisbon, Portugal- Member of the Cloudflare Radar team, building and shipping full-stack features across the Radar API and website — including pages on DNS, Certificate Transparency, AI insights, and Internet services rankings, among others.
- Built the Radar MCP Server, enabling AI assistants to query Radar data.
- Contributing frontend work to AI Crawl Control on the Cloudflare dashboard.
- Contributed to CI pipeline migrations, Infrastructure-as-Code adoption, and system resilience efforts.
- Involved in ongoing platform maintenance: SEO improvements, dependency upgrades, high-availability work, and testing.
- Mentored an intern on a full-stack feature spanning both API and frontend.
- Started as a Software Engineer Intern (May 2024), transitioned to full-time Systems Engineer (September 2024).
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Teaching Assistant
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa– Lisbon, Portugal- Teaching assistant for Algorithms & Data Structures, Introduction to Web Programming, and Software Laboratory across the 2nd to 4th semesters of the BSc in Computer Science and Engineering.
- Led practical lab sessions and provided one-on-one support to students.
- Maintained server infrastructure used by students for Software Laboratory projects.
- Assisted in the preparation and grading of exams and assignments.
Education
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MSc. in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Tecnico - Universidade de Lisboa– 18/20- Focus Areas: Distributed Systems and Cybersecurity
- Dissertation: "Serverless Snapshot Orchestration" - 19/20 (95%)
- Key coursework: Distributed Applications, Cloud Computing and Virtualization, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Software Security, Forensics Cyber-Security, Highly Dependable Systems, Deep Learning, and Data Science.
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BSc. in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa - Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa– 18/20- Studied core computer science fundamentals: Algorithms and Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Engineering, Databases, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems.
- Student representative between 2022 and 2023, representing the students of the degree in the pedagogical council of the school.
- Received two merit scholarships for academic excellence, in 2020 and 2022.
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
- Comfortable working across multiple languages, picking the right tool for the job.
- Care about writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
Backend Development
- Experience in building scalable, secure backend services with modern frameworks.
- Designing and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Work with relational and NoSQL databases.
Frontend Development
- Build responsive user interfaces with React and modern frameworks.
- Experience with data visualizations, using libraries like D3.js.
- Used on internationalization (i18n) for multi-language support.
- Care about web performance, Core Web Vitals, SEO, and accessibility (WCAG). Feel free to run Lighthouse on this website to see for yourself ;)
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Deploying and managing applications using containerization and orchestration technologies.
- Familiar with cloud platforms and edge computing for scalable infrastructure.
- Managing infrastructure as code for reproducible and version-controlled environments.
- Setting up observability systems, including monitoring, logging, and alerting.