My name is Eduardo. I'm a software developer / engineer / analyst / programmer / whatever. I do stuff with computers and consider myself a master of none. I fell in love with them from the moment I saw "Tron" and "War Games" when I was a kid. My first computer was a ZX Spectrum +2B (a couple of friends still make fun of me because I never had an Atari...).
I started as a researcher at the NLX-Group, affiliated to the Department of Informatics of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences. The group pursues research and development activities in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, with a particular focus on natural language and speech interaction. During my time with the group, I developed a named entity recognizer for the Portuguese language which covered entities based on numbers (arabic, roman, fraction and magnitude numerals, measures, time expressions, etc.) and names (people, organizations, locations, etc.).
So far, I've worked at companies that span several business areas (billing, commerce, data analytics, insurance, internet search, networks, pharmaceutics, telecommunications, and web):
Currently, I'm a freelancer.
The programming languages I'm most comfortable with are Java and Python. I'm working on some personal projects to learn more about Python, Scala, Rust, Go, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Terraform, and Ansible. I also love pattern recognition, which means that I'm somewhat fluent in regular expressions.
I've also worked with several other technologies along the way (VBScript, ASP, Microsoft Internet Information Services v5.0 and v6.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Access 2003 and 2007, SAP HTMLB, BSP, ABAP).
On my spare time, I work on small projects that cover a wide range of interests and topics, including:
You can find these projects on my GitHub account.
Some of the projects at the top of the queue that could be picked up soon are:
These are some of the topics that interest me:
I tend to keep my brain busy with:
I also enjoy exploring new languages. I'm currently learning Danish (at my own pace), and brushing up on my French and Spanish. Others will follow suit very soon (most likely German and Russian).
You can start by taking a look at my LinkedIn profile. If that caught your attention, please get in touch for further details.
You can follow me on Twitter. I occasionally write some tidbits on my blog (English only).
If you're interested, feel free to send me an e-mail at mulberry[dot]beacon[at]gmail[dot]com for just about any reason. I'm available for freelance work, so if you think I'd be able to help you out in any way, ping me.