Computer Engineering student at Universidade de Aveiro (LECI, 2024–2027).
Focused on DevOps/SRE, infrastructure and low-level software development.
🇵🇹 Portugal
Computer Engineering student at Universidade de Aveiro (LECI, 2024–2027), with a strong focus on DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure and low-level software development.
I've built a solid foundation in C - data structures, manual memory management and performance-oriented design - and I'm actively deepening my knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, and observability.
I enjoy working at the boundary between systems programming and automation: writing code that runs fast and pipelines that ship reliably.
I'm curious, problem-driven, and looking to grow inside teams where I can both contribute and learn from experienced engineers.
| Domain | Tools & Technologies |
|---|---|
| Languages | C - Go, Python - Bash - C++ |
| Systems | Linux - cgroups v2 - namespaces - systemd - sockets |
| Infrastructure | Terraform - Ansible - AWS (EC2, VPC, Route53, NAT) - OCI |
| Observability | Prometheus - Grafana - Alertmanager |
| DevOps | GitHub Actions - Kubernetes - Docker - CI/CD Pipelines |
| Build & Tooling | Make - CMake - GCC/Clang - Valgrind - GDB |
| Quality & Sec | cppcheck - gosec - Trivy - CodeQL - race detector |
Forge - Self-Hosted PaaS
A deployment platform built from scratch. Push to GitHub -> app live at its own HTTPS subdomain. No Docker, no Kubernetes, no third-party platform.
Infrastructure & operations:
- Terraform stacks for AWS and OCI: VPC/VCN, public/private subnets, NAT gateway, EC2, Route53, scoped security groups. Workers in private subnets with no public IP.
- Ansible bootstraps both hosts: compiles from source, renders ansible-vault-encrypted env files, manages systemd units for all services.
- Caddy as a dynamic reverse proxy — routes and TLS certificates provisioned automatically per subdomain on every deploy via its JSON Admin API.
- Prometheus + Grafana + Alertmanager for observability, with a custom Go metrics exporter per worker node.
- Automatic rollback on health check failure. Graceful process lifecycle (SIGTERM -> grace -> SIGKILL). cgroup v2 + Linux namespace isolation.
System design:
- Control plane in Go: HMAC-SHA256 webhook validation, task scheduler, SQLite WAL state, AES-256-GCM secrets vault, SSE log streaming.
- Worker agent in C11: poll-driven task execution, hand-rolled HTTP client, custom recursive-descent JSON parser, Linux user/PID/mount namespaces, no container runtime.
- CI: Go vet/lint/race detector, strict C compilation, gosec, Trivy, CodeQL, Terraform validate, Ansible lint, E2E tests. Live at nforge.space - Admin console at admin.nforge.space.
miniAI — Neural Network from Scratch in C
A complete feed-forward neural network built in pure C, zero ML library dependencies.
- Backpropagation, ReLU/Softmax activations, L2 regularisation, gradient clipping.
- Custom arena allocator for high-performance memory management.
- PNG image pipeline with automatic character segmentation.
- 98%+ accuracy on digit/alphanumeric recognition (62 classes).
- Full hyperparameter grid search with automatic config persistence.
- CI/CD on Linux + macOS, Docker Hub releases, GitHub Pages docs.
TSP Solver — Algorithms for the Travelling Salesman Problem
Side-by-side comparison of exact, heuristic, and meta-heuristic TSP algorithms in pure C.
| Category | Algorithms |
|---|---|
| Exact | Exhaustive Search (±pruning), Held-Karp |
| Heuristic | Nearest Neighbour, Greedy, Nearest Insertion, Christofides |
| Meta-heuristic | 2-Opt, Simulated Annealing, Ant Colony, Genetic Algorithm |
| Lower Bounds | MST, Held-Karp Lagrangian Relaxation |
CI/CD on Linux + macOS, Docker Hub releases, GitHub Pages docs.
Benchmarked on TSPLIB instances (Eil51, Oliver30, Swiss42).
< 3% error vs optimal on real European city graphs with the best meta-heuristics.
- Licenciatura em Engenharia de Computadores e Informática (LECI).
Universidade de Aveiro: Sep 2024 - Jun 2027 (Expected): Current GPA: 16/20. - Ensino Secundário em Ciências e Tecnologias.
Escola Secundária Dr. Mário Sacramento: Sep 2021 - Jun 2024: GPA: 18/20.
- Portuguese - Native.
- English - C1/C2 (Aptis ESOL Advanced, British Council, issue Apr 2024).