I am a professional software developer with exposure to the full project life cycle/software development life cycle. My strong sense of professionalism, desire to learn and entrepreneurial mindset makes me a great professional.
My skills have been developed through both education (Computer Science degree and MSc. Information Security) and experience and provide me with an excellent basis for working in the most demanding of situations.
I'm very interested in two main areas such as Distributed and Fault Tolerant Systems and Big Data.
Technical Background:
Java, Python
SQL, MySQL, MongoDB
git, RabbitMQ
Security
Fault Tolerance
Distributed Systems
Python Data Engineer @ Import.io allows people with or without coding skills to instantly turn web pages into data.
We are a young startup that’s shaking up the world of data. From our homebase in London, we’re working hard to give people a totally new way to access data from the web. With an ambitious and very capable team we are aiming to be the world's biggest data provider.
I'm a Data Python Engineer working on the Data Services Team and is my responsibility:
- Exceed the expectations of our paying customers by delivering high-quality data on time;
- Build and maintain data back-end systems to automate the ETL process interacting with our world-class application;
- Build and maintain back-end systems to interact with other internal or external systems;
- Build custom scripts to help the daily basis processes (such as generating stats, clean data, custom scrapers, etc.)
- Interview candidates and potential hires for the data services team.
Working with:
Python, JavaScript
AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS), S3, etc.
git From May 2015 to Present (6 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Developer @ Geneity provides an innovative new suite of e-gaming products built with years of experience in the sector, but re-designed from the ground up to take advantage of the latest trends in the market.
I've worked as Python Software Developer on the Feeds team which is responsible to build the feeds architecture/framework to automate the action of retrieving data (sports, leagues, matches and markets) from several sources and generate our own data. From November 2013 to April 2015 (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomFounder & Editor @ I've founded an online magazine called Mexxer (http://mexxer.pt). I’m publishing daily articles about entrepreneurship, careers, productivity, creativity and technology.
The website is visited every day by more than 2000 people, mainly from Portugal and Brazil.
This project allowed me to explore Wordpress, JavaScript and writing skills (Portuguese). From July 2012 to April 2015 (2 years 10 months) Lisbon, PortugalCo-Founder & Developer @ I've co-founded and developed World Class Notes. World Class Notes is an online platform to help college students to improve grades by sharing academic content. The new website version acquired 4500+ users and 1700+ shared documents.
World Class Notes was in 3 months Lisbon Challenge accelerator program.
PHP, JavaScript (and jQuery), MySQL, CSS, bootstrap and HTML skills. From May 2011 to March 2014 (2 years 11 months) Lisbon, PortugalWeb Developer @ Developed new GREENFEST '13 official website (http://greenfestival.pt).
Greenfest is a portuguese event which happen every year, with 30 thousand participants per year in average.
In this project I explored PHP, JavaScript (and jQuery) skills. From April 2013 to November 2013 (8 months) LisboaMSc Information Security, Junior Researcher @ I was a Junior Researcher at Navigators Research Group, LaSIGE. There I developed and wrote my Master thesis in Information Security and Fault Tolerance, called The Diode Interface.
The completion of the work allowed me to understand how research works and to explore my Java skills and other technologies such as iptables, snort and JPCap and a huge amount of theory related with Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance applied to the Diode. From May 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 6 months) Faculty of Sciences University of LisbonStudent and Junior Researcher @ MSc. Information Security From September 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 1 month) Lisbon Area, PortugalOperator and IT Technician @ Research Scholarship at Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon
At the Faculty of Sciences I worked at Information Technology Center. I explored helpdesk, computer networking, Linux and problem solving skills. From September 2010 to May 2011 (9 months) LisboaIT Technician @ Before starting college, I worked a year in Compta. Compta is an IT company. Here I explored helpdesk, system administration, Linux and team work skills. From September 2007 to June 2008 (10 months) Lisbon, Portugal
Master, Master Degree Information Security @ Universidade de Lisboa From 2011 to 2013 Licenciatura, Computer Science Degree @ Universidade de Lisboa From 2008 to 2011 Secundário, Electronica @ Secundária da Ramada Hugo Sousa is skilled in: Java, PHP, Linux, JavaScript, MySQL, SQL, C, Windows, XML, jQuery, Entrepreneurship, Resilience, Web Development, Software Engineering, Web Applications, Software Development, Git, MongoDB, Time Management, Flexibility, Internet Entrepreneur, Information Security, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Systems, Python, Operating Systems, Computer Science, Programming, Databases, Design Patterns
Websites:
http://mexxer.pt,
http://worldclassnotes.com