I've had the opportunity to work in a number of different environments and on tasks that allowed me to grow professionally and adapt quickly to change and the requirements of business. I'm always eager to learn and get things done. I want to work on challenging problems that impact people's lives. On the technical side, I love software engineering, but above and beyond that, I love solving problems and learning new technologies while continually searching for improvement.
Senior Software Engineer, TenTen
Jul, 2019 - May, 202010 months
Project lead for pen-testing and security audit of the beacon Bluetooth communication protocols, Mobile, and all backends across several products. Plan for migration from PaaS to cloud systems and define roadmap and product management.
Remote Senior Software Engineer, DI.FM
Sep, 2016 - Jun, 20192 years 9 months
Backend development for the systems and API's that power the DI.FM Mobile and web applications. Part of distributed engineering team working remotely across 4 different continents to deliver the high quality audio experience of DI.FM Built the core technology for the new playlist generation system and the migration to a CDN based approach of the DI.FM products, optimised poorly performing services and API responses across several infrastructure layers.
Implemented the next generation playlist generation system in a highly performant and extendable structure.
Migrated and improved general software structure from legacy systems
Optimised several poorly-performant parts of the system
Worked with product team and engineering across timezones to execute a major Product change to CDN delivery
Maintained and refactored multiple of the existing Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL systems.
Software Engineer, TenTen
Apr, 2015 - Sep, 20161 year 5 months
TenTen provides customer loyalty-related solutions and is innovating in the vending machine sector by introducing a SmartBeacon inside vending machines. In this role, I planned and built a distributed architecture over several services that allows independent development of each system and a clear separation of concerns. My work, as one of the first backend engineers, was laying out a foundation that enables platform growth while maintaining speed of feature development and reducing the pains associated with rapid growth.
Planned, designed, and built the backend of the TenTen platform
Developed React/Express isomorphic web apps
Designed and built a distributed service architecture using RabbitMQ
Multiple REST APIs using Rails, Grape and Express
Platform infrastructure & continuous integration, Heroku, AWS, Compose, CircleCI, and other technologies
Integrated metric collection and reporting using InfluxDB and Grafana over queue-based events
Designed the protocol that allows secure communication between the hardware and backend over mobile phones
Software Engineer, Phybbit
Jul, 2013 - Apr, 20151 year 9 months
Phybbit is a multifunctional team working on website and mobile applications, interactive experiences, and prototype research. My role at Phybbit was to plan, design, and build customer visions. This involved working as part of the client solution team and with diverse backend, mobile, and web technologies
Ruby on Rails and Express REST APIs
Infrastructure planning and management on AWS
Android applications in eCommerce, Beacons/Bluetooth
Prototypes and MVP development
System Administrator & Developer, Imagine Virtual
Aug, 2008 - Jul, 20134 years 11 months
Design, development and marketing office with a focus on out of the box experiences
Maintained, monitored and improved infrastructure to support 300+ hosted domains, websites and emails
Configured and maintained Apache, sendmail, qmail, postfix, exchange server, DNS servers, etc...
Research Fellowship, Instituto Superior Tecnico
Apr, 2012 - Oct, 20126 months
Helped my university to manage and maintain the infrastructure needed by employees, students and faculty members.
Technical support, backup managment and troubleshooting
Network maintenance and migrations
Consulting, Claranet
Sep, 2008 - Dec, 20083 months
Technical consulting for the implementation of automatic .pt domain registration
Implemented and provided support on EPP protocol over the current backoffice
Technical support and development, Claranet
Aug, 2007 - Aug, 20081 year
Technical phone support for webhosting services and development of new backoffice systems
Implemented the first Portuguese automatic registration module for .pt domains through EPP protocol
Solved customer issues under Linux and Windows managed through Plesk Control Panel
Improved current backoffice and created new systems to face new challenges
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Javascript
React
RabbitMQ
Express
Nodejs
Java
Android
Agile &&|| Scrum
BDD
12factor
Domain driven development
Software Architecture
Patterns
Continuous integration
User centered development
Linux
Nginx
Apache
MTA
Docker
AWS
Heroku
Computer Science, Bachelor, Instituto Superior Tecnico
Jan, 2007 - Jan, 2012
16/20Hobbies
Tech hobbies
Hugo is a committed person. He sure works to get the best results from whatever mission he has. A good support engineer and an excellent php programmer. At the same time he is walking thought is way to became also a good system administrator.