Resume

My professional experience and education

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Experience

  1. Cloudflare

    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).
  2. 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.

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

  • Comfortable working across multiple languages, picking the right tool for the job.
  • Care about writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
JavaScript TypeScript Python Kotlin Java

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.
NodeJS FastAPI GraphQL Spring PostgreSQL MongoDB

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 ;)
HTML5 CSS React Remix Vite Astro

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.
Docker Kubernetes Cloudflare Workers Google Cloud Platform GitLab CI Prometheus Grafana Terraform Sentry

AI & Developer Tools

  • Experienced using AI coding tools to accelerate productivity across the full development lifecycle — coding, testing, debugging, writing documentation, and drafting specs.
  • Familiar with tools like OpenCode and Windsurf, and comfortable integrating AI assistants into daily workflows.
OpenCode Windsurf

Education

  1. Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa

    MSc. in Computer Science and Engineering

    Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa
     –  Grade: 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.
  2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa

    BSc. in Computer Science and Engineering

    Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
     –  Grade: 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.

Speaking

Empowering AI with MCP

AI Frameworks Meetup · Cloudflare, Lisbon

May 2025

An introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it connects AI systems with external applications and data sources, with a live demo of building and deploying a Remote MCP server on Cloudflare.

Honors & Awards

Merit Scholarship 2022/2023

DGES - Directorate General for Higher Education · Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa - Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa

Nov 2024

Merit scholarships are awarded by Public and Private Higher Education Institutions to students with exceptional performance, regardless of their income, in accordance with the Regulation of Allocation of Scholarships for Students of Higher Education Institutions.

Oct 2024

Academic Merit Award given by Santander Bank, to the best student in the Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering for the 2022/2023 academic year.

Merit Scholarship 2020/2021

DGES - Directorate General for Higher Education · Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa - Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa

Sep 2022

Merit scholarships are awarded by Public and Private Higher Education Institutions to students with exceptional performance, regardless of their income, in accordance with the Regulation of Allocation of Scholarships for Students of Higher Education Institutions.

Oct 2020

Award given by Santander in recognition of academic excellence, to the student enrolled in the Degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the academic year 2020/2021.