> whoami

I am a 23 year old Electrical and Computer Eng. Master’s student at Instituto Superior Técnico - ULisboa, majoring in Computer Systems and minoring in Electronic Circuits and Systems, with a knack for all things FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing

As of now I am finishing my MSc Thesis on a Hardware/Software Co-Designed Embedded System for Aerial Image Segmentation based on Transformers at INESC-ID/INESC-INOV under Prof. Horácio Neto and Prof. Mário Véstias. I will continue my work on hardware design for Artificial Intelligence as a PhD student, with the same supervisors. From 2023 to July 2025 I was a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering teaching on the following courses:

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Digital Systems
• Programming
• Computer Architectures

I enjoyed this experience throughly, winning the Excelence in Teaching award for the school year of 23/24.

I have also been hackin’ and tinkerin’ while involved with the HackerSchool hackerspace, which I belong to since 2021. At HackerSchool I have assumed the following functions:

• Board Member (Marketing) in 2022
• President from 2022 to 2024
• Board Member (Chief Hacker Officer) from 2024 until now

> more interests.txt

> grep “Academic Interests”

• Reconfigurable Computing
• FPGA Prototyping
• Digital Hardware Design and Verification
• Embedded and IoT Archtectures
  • AI on the Edge
• Electronic Design Automation

> grep “Technical Interests”

• Open Hardware, Hardware Hacking and Right to Repair
• Linux and Open Source Software
• Smart Urban Agriculture
• Incremental Manufacturing Processes (3D Printing)

> grep “The ‘Cool’ Interests and Curio”

• I go to the gym, like target shooting and enjoy camping. But I am not a gym bro, just a gym buddy :)
• I enjoy cooking and barbecueing
• I like to produce spirits and I’m learning more on home brewing
• I really like dogs and I am medically alergic to cats
• I do a bit of analog photography
• Finally I am a huge nerd
  • I am really interested in History (since I was a kid)
    • Pre-Roman Celtiberian Civilizations (such as Celtici and Lusitani)
    • European Dark Ages and Medieval Folklore, culture and wars
    • Modern-ish War Machines
  • I throughly enjoy reading
    • J.R.R. Tolkien worldbuilding tomes and fantasy
    • H.P. Lovecraft weird fiction
    • João Aguiar’s historical novels
  • I collect Heavy Metal vinyls, with a preference for NWOBHM and Doom
  • I’ve DM’ed and played multiple Dungeons and Dragons and Call of Cthulhu campaigns.
  • I play a bit of Magic the Gathering

> zathura Curriculum_Vitæ.pdf