Senior Software Engineer | AI Agent Expert | Tech Inventor & Innovator
Portugal
Highly accomplished Full-Stack Software Engineer, Senior Platform Engineer, and AI Agent Expert with 9 years of experience and a strong foundation in Systems and Embedded engineering. Former CTO of a deep-tech IoT startup for 6 years, securing 150% R&D funding increase and 3 patents in energy storage technology. Open to consultancy or full-time roles.
Salary
EUR 75,000 – 250,000
Nordic Sky Propulsion
Jan 2026 — Present
Highly technical cross-disciplinary role covering server-side infrastructure design (Proxmox, Traefik, HAProxy, Fortinet, GitHub runners), CI/CD, binary repo management (Proget, Pulp), and more. Managed and optimized CI/CD pipelines across multiple projects and tech stacks, migrated legacy package stacks with 1000+ active packages, implemented custom battery pack firmware, and owned full e2e platform scope for UAV and ground-based systems.
Gitpod GmbH
Sept 2025 — Dec 2025
Improved existing AI Coding Agent Harness. Implemented a feature saving >€150k/year in token usage costs. Designed and landed a production-grade context engineering strategy, led R&D into agentic context management systems, and implemented an evaluation and benchmark harness for the agent.
Emissium Labs LDA
Aug 2025 — Dec 2025
Scaled internal prototypes and ML models to production readiness. Implemented CI/CD and DevOps practices with GitHub Actions and Docker Compose. Designed and landed key backend services including gRPC APIs, REST APIs, DBs, and microservices. Implemented GPU infrastructure for ML workloads and integrated Authentik, Coolify, and other best practices.
Nordic Sky Propulsion
Jun 2025 — Dec 2025
Designed, fabricated, and implemented a Jet Engine Control Unit (ECU) at firmware, software, and control levels using embedded Linux, C++, Rust, and Golang. Owned the project end-to-end, worked with PCB and mechanical design specialists, developed advanced flight algorithms and control flow state machines, and implemented security and compliance requirements.
Prometheon Technologies Bvba
Dec 2019 — Jan 2025
Led innovative deep-tech IoT startup specializing in electrochemical engineering, embedded systems, software engineering, DevOps, and project management. Secured 150% increase in R&D funding. Invented and led development of advanced Proton Batteries with 3 patents. Hired and managed a team of 6 engineers. Designed company infrastructure, virtual data rooms, and real-time battery management cloud infrastructure. Reduced system downtime by 20%.
CYRES Bvba
Jul 2017 — Dec 2019
Added technological consultancy to Cyres portfolio for R&D departments. Directly led to onboarding of 3 new clients through technical insights into market trends. Developed novel solutions saving 5 companies over €50,000 each in technical debt.