Senior Software Engineer
AI, High Performance Computing & Algorithms
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience, having started programming C++ at 13 and Reinforcement Learning at 16, specializing in High Performance Computing (HPC), AI/ML, and scalable distributed architectures. Expertise in low-level optimization using C++, CUDA, and Rust to develop efficient, production-ready AI models, designing custom neural network architectures for real-time heuristic evaluation and high-throughput inference engines. Proven track record in real-time systems, such as multi-threaded neural network optimizations and configurable inference frameworks, ensuring predictable performance under high concurrency. Architected high-stakes distributed solutions on AWS EKS and GCP. Passionate about algorithm-level innovations and multi-agent AI.
Professional Experience
Research Grant
University of Aveiro
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
- Developed a web platform for medical ML, enabling remote model training, fine-tuning, and analysis.
Software Engineer
Mint State Labs
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
- Developed a high-performance Web3 NFT metadata caching service in Rust, designed to serve NFT collection data faster than leading marketplaces at the time.
- Architected a layered caching stack over MongoDB and deployed the service on AWS EKS to keep latency low and performance stable during traffic spikes.
Cloud & AI Software Engineer
Orange Comet, Inc.
Dec 2022 - Jul 2024
- Designed and developed microservices in Rust + Actix Web on AWS EKS for public web3 related services.
- Owned a high-budget GPU rendering pipeline on Google Cloud using Blender CLI to create NFT video collections, planning and monitoring multi-day rendering campaigns.
- Designed an AI-driven random map generator in C++, later ported to Lua, producing high-quality maps with fair starting conditions for multiple players.
- Developed and optimized AI behavior modules for Unreal Engine so complex agent logic could run efficiently in real time.
Senior Real Time & AI Engineer
Cint
Aug 2024 - Present
- Built and optimized real-time systems that power core products under high concurrency.
- Contributed to strategic decisions on adopting and integrating AI services across the platform.
- Planned, developed, and deployed multi-threaded optimizations for low-level neural-network instruction models on shared real-time environments.
- Created runtime-compilable, parallelization-aware inference frameworks for configurable and highly efficient low-level instructions.
- Developed knowledge-retrieval services and internal MCP servers to expose company knowledge to AI assistants and internal tools.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Artificial Intelligence
Systems & Performance
Cloud & Infrastructure
Personal Successful Projects
Here are some of my key personal projects. These examples demonstrate my ability to apply advanced algorithms and build high-performance systems from the ground up to solve complex challenges in competitive programming, AI, and automated investments.
Custom Deep Learning Frameworks
High-Performance Board Game AIs
Crypto Trading Bot (CUDA/C++)
University AI Project Award
Education & Certifications
My academic background and professional certifications provided a strong foundation in computer science and intelligent systems. It allowed me to explore broad areas related to efficient computation.
Education
Post-Graduate, AI & Robotics
University of Aveiro, 2022
Master's Degree, Computer Science
University of Aveiro, 2015 - 2020