Senior Software Engineer @ Lead engineer for mobile backend services. From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer @ iOS and backend engineer on the mobile team. Working on experimental apps. From February 2015 to June 2015 (5 months) Greater New York City AreaLead Backend Engineer @ Leading the design and development of all backend and data systems. Implemented the network components of the first version of the iOS app (Core Data and AFNetworking). Currently programming in Scala, Akka, Play Framework 2, Objective-C, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. From October 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 4 months) Brooklyn, NYLead Engineer @ Led the design and development of all backend and data systems. Successfully scaled Zeega to thousands of concurrent requests. Created a distributed system for data ingestion. Managed the deployment of all system components in AWS and Rackspace. Programmed in PHP, Python, JavaScript, RabbitMQ, Solr and MongoDB. From September 2011 to January 2015 (3 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaWeb Mining Assistant @ Part-time position with diverse tasks related to software development, information retrieval and machine learning. Daily tasks included writing Perl and Python scripts for information extraction (job boards, twitter), improving the performance of classifiers and implementing map-reduce jobs with Hadoop, among others. From January 2011 to June 2011 (6 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsStudent Programmer @ Designed and implemented a data integration system for the discovery of hidden connections between existing data sets. Open-source project developed under the Google Summer of Code Program 2010 for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. From May 2010 to August 2010 (4 months) Greater Boston AreaSoftware Engineer and Consultant @ Developer and consultant in document management projects. Primary responsibilities included the analysis, design and implementation of system integration components. Helped the definition of a development process that included the use quality analysis, code reviews and continuous integration as standard practice among the development team. Led the definition of research strategies and innovation guidelines for the company. From September 2007 to April 2010 (2 years 8 months) Lisbon Area, Portugal

MSc., Artificial Intelligence @ Universiteit van Amsterdam From 2009 to 2011 BSc, Computer Science @ ISEL - Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa From 2003 to 2008 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2007 @ Trinity College Dublin Luís Brandão is skilled in: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Python, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Open Source, C#, Git, Information Extraction, JavaScript, Programming, Distributed Systems, MapReduce, Data Mining, Computer Vision, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services..., Objective-C