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Lisbon, PT

At the service of 1k+ students on their AI Mastery journey.

- Altar is an award-winning product studio, where ex-founders help current innovators define, build and ship great products- 90+ products launched to date- Bringing my experience in AI/ML and startups to the mix

Lisbon, Portugal

- Joined ai.pt for the vision of building an AI-centric venture studio in Lisbon- Developed process to produce audiobooks with TTS from a book, passing the "humanity" test, and publishing a full AI-Gen audiobook on Audible- Automated personalised GPT-based email outreach, generating 92% open rates

- Envisioned Radiobooks as a mission to spread knowledge in audiobook format, leveraging cost efficiency that the latest AI text-to-speech would bring to audio production- Took part in Microsoft for Startups and Nvidia ignite programs- Failed to find product-market fitB2C (first 6 mo):coded MVP, launched a B2C audible-like app for Portugal with public.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the most used Linux OS in the world.- I worked directly with the founder and CEO, leading product, go-to-market, and OSS strategies for MLOps and Kubeflow.

- Kubeflow is at the base of Google's Vertex AI.- I represented Canonical at the Kubeflow open-source community.- Became the #1 contributor outside of Google to documentation.- Lead a docs restructure + release of versions v1.2, v1.3

Lisbon Area, Portugal

- after going through the program in Silicon Valley, was invited to co-lead the Lisbon cohort.- co-led sessions across several cohorts of entrepreneurs- shared frameworks on product, go-to-market, P-M fit, branding, team, and all things entrepreneurship- invited experienced mentors and led pitch sessions

Lisbon Area, Portugal

- Leadzai raised 7M€+ to help small businesses tap into online ads without risk. - I mapped acquisition funnels, interviewed customers, proposed a product re-design and led it.

Palo Alto, California

- TechOS was a centralized marketplace for dev freelancers, with standardized price and quality.- created sales pipeline across USA, UK and Switzerland.- validated market hypothesis by interviewing 200+ prospects, devs and CXOs.It was way too early. In 2018, AI technology was not ready to process the unstructured data required to put a price tag on a.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

- AA's robots make low throughput lab experiments reproducible and fast for customers like MIT,Harvard, Stanford, P&G, GSK and Roche.- I algorithmically optimized dimensions, designed, prototyped and tested a new robot's components.- I identified critical design issue one month into the job, developing adopted solutions.

Research Internship, Robotics, 6/6

Proposed and tested hypothesis on animal locomotory control by building a quadruped robot in simulation and hardware, two types of.

Msc, Mechatronic Systems Engineering, 18/20 - Top 1%

- Awarded Best Portuguese MSc. Thesis in Robotics by PRS - Student Delegate & Pedagogic Council board member - Led team of 16 to organize.

Silicon Valley Startup Accelerator

6 out of 27 founders graduated