Alex Rodrigues Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London

I am responsible for technical leadership and strategy at Big Data International, continuously enhance product innovations, partnerships and service delivery.

Us & Emea

London, United Kingdom

Data pipeline / Lambda architecture implementation for a DSP. Application of machine learning algorithms to improve business performance.

Porto

Development of a highly concurrent and high traffic web application. Worked with Spring, Groovy, Cassandra, Couchbase and SOA.

Porto, Portugal

Development of a media distribution and measurement system with a cloud-based architecture, scalable and fault-tolerant. The solution uses JVM-stack, Hadoop and NoSQL (Cassandra) deployed in AWS.

Member of JuniFEUP, Junior Enterprise of Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, a students association making the bridge between the job market and the academic environment, providing real world enterprise experiences to the members.Some skills in project management acquired and development of several projects with .NET 2.0-3.5, J2EE with Spring Framework and Hibernate, PHP and Ruby on Rails. System administrator since mid-2008. International representation as network manager in several events through JADE, European Federation of Junior Enterprises and JADE Portugal.

IT Projects department management which included project management, team allocation, client relationship management, requirement analysis and high-level software quality control. Initial drafting of JuniFEUP.‘s quality processes.

Finished up to 15 work assignments, including web design, web development and automatization processes through scripting.Participation as monitor in Projecto FEUP 2009/10, an integration curricular unit for univeristy newcomers.

Doing an IPTV Recommendation System using open source scalable solutions for HPC such as Apache Hadoop / Apache Mahout. Focus on accuracy and production-ready deployment to process huge datasets and handle huge request load.Developing a fresh interest in machine learning on big data.

System Administration and Web Development on CoreSP, a portuguese hosting service provider, that became one of the top 8 providing the service in Portugal. Experience with production unix environments acquired. The company was closed in 2008.

Initial development of EIMURT - Electronic Intelligence Module Under Revolt Technology within a non-profit robotics group. Planning and initial development of Btuga 2.0 - a BitTorrent based client with some protocol and performance changes (discontinued).

Master, Informatics Engineering And Computation, 16/20

Activities and Societies: JuniFEUP — Junior Enterprise of FEUP

High School, Computer Programming, 18/20

Computer programming, basic software and database design covered. Mark Average: 18 in 20