Experience
Technical Consulting Engineer, TAC Data Center AI Compute
Cisco
- Resolve critical production incidents for enterprise customers across UCS hardware, fabric interconnects and data center switching.
- Root-cause performance bottlenecks across compute, ESXi clusters and cloud-managed server virtualization using logs, captures and telemetry.
- Built an event-driven defect audit in Python leveraging Generative AI that produces a scored compliance summary against quality guidelines, sends key findings to the submitter over Webex and publishes a detailed report.
- Built internal lookup tools for defect reviews and RMA status: lightweight web frontends on Python backends that call internal APIs in parallel, cache in MongoDB and use an LLM to produce reviewable reports.
Promoted from TAC intern in April 2026.
Digital Business Engineer
t_insight
- Built and fixed high-traffic, responsive web platforms using TypeScript and ASP.NET MVC.
QA Automation Engineer
Sky Portugal
- Built a prototype RAG Slack bot in Python with Azure OpenAI that classifies Jira bug tickets and routes them to the right team.
Summer internship.
Projects
raft-kv In progress
Replicated key-value store in Go on the Raft consensus algorithm.
- Go
ChessLab Deployed
Chess training app for building an opening repertoire and drilling it with spaced repetition, with tactics training on top.
- Result
- Running in production, with email and Google sign-in and a pool of 10k+ Lichess puzzles.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- NextAuth
- Vercel
Playkit Continuous development
Progressive web app of minigames for live promotional events, with admin controls for event staff.
- Result
- Used by thousands of users at tens of live events, and works offline through service workers.
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Cloudflare Pages
- Service workers
Skills
- Languages
- Go, Python, TypeScript, C, SQL
- Backend & tools
- PostgreSQL, Docker, gRPC, Linux, Git, Next.js, React
- Networking & data center
- BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, Cisco UCS, ESXi
- Security
- Web exploitation, CTF (write-ups)
Certifications
Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center (CCNP Data Center)
Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
Cisco Certified Network Associate Automation (CCNA Automation)
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Education
MSc in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico
Specializing in distributed systems and cybersecurity.
BSc in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico