About Me

My name is Luís, and I was born and raised in Joane (Portugal). I have a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Robotics, and Automation but my passion for Software led me to get a post-graduation degree, this time in Software Engineering. At this moment I'm working as a Software Engineer at Curve, a London-based fintech that wants to revolutionize the payment industry.
In my free time, I like to read tech blogs and experiment with new technological things. Additionally, I like cinema and, you can, most of the time, find me practicing sports like running, swimming and biking. I love to travel and experiment with other cultures and know about the history of every place I visit.
I have an extreme passion for technology and I value knowledge above all.

Work

Qonto

Senior Software Engineer August, 2022 - Present

Qonto is the leading European business finance solution. It simplifies everything from everyday banking and financing to bookkeeping and spending management. Qonto energizes SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more. A few figures about Qonto:

  • Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi created Qonto in July 2017
  • 500+ happy Qontoers (And we're hiring more!)
  • 220,000 + companies are using Qonto
  • €622m raised with VCs and business angels including Valar, Alven, the European Investment Bank, Tencent, DST Global, Tiger Global, TCV, Alkeon, Eurazeo, KKR, Insight Partners, Exor Seeds and Gaingels.
  • Listed in the French Tech #Next40, bringing together the most promising young companies of the French Tech industry.
  • 1st B2B account for financial management to get a Payment Institution licence.

Curve

Software Engineer May, 2021 - July, 2022

Backend Software Engineer working with Golang hoping to disrupt the fintech space.
Projects:

  • US launch: from start to alpha, beta and public launch
  • Crypto Rewards
  • Smart Rules
Curve is on a mission to simplify the way people spend, send, see and save money. We believe the end-game will be a connected world of money, tailored individually for each customer. We’re building this end game - an Operating System for Money.

Kelvin Inc.

Software Engineer August, 2019 - April, 2021

Backend Engineer working with Golang and Python in a cloud distributed environment to develop a high availability software.
Kelvin Inc. is a San Francisco based company that enables physical systems to optimize and operate themselves, allowing people to focus on what matters most.

HUUB

Software Engineer February, 2017 - July, 2019

Backend Engineer working with python and Django Rest Framework in a micro-service based environment powered by AWS. Led a team of 4 developers and was part of the software architecture design.
HUUB is a logistics startup that links the supply chain from suppliers to customers, through a full-scale logistics service and an all-in-one management platform, SPOKE.

Education

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

Post-graduation in Software Engineering September, 2017 - January, 2019

It served to solidify my knowledge in the life cycle of a software product.
Here I had contact with the best practices in requirements gathering, software architecture, various development methodologies, different types of tests (from unit to integration and stress tests) as well as software teams management techniques.

Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto

Master's Degree - Electrical and Computer Engineering, September, 2012 - July, 2017 Major in automation, specializing in Robotics and Systems

It enabled me to solidified advanced math and physics topics.
I gained a lot of knowledge about computer science and programming in various languages and paradigms.
With Major in Automation and specialization in Robotics and Systems, I had contact with IoT, industrial automation and computer vision.

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