Contentful · Jekyll · Ruby
About
I am a Software Engineer with expertise in designing, developing, and deploying Web based projects, analysing and modelling structured and unstructured data, natural language processing, machine learning, and systems administration.
I have over ten years experience developing in Python, Java and XSLT; over five years experience with Django; knowledge of several metadata standards, including TEI, METS, EAD; experience in several Apache projects including Ant, Cocoon, Lucene, Solr, Tomcat and Jetty; also designing, implementing and integrating databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite), and ontologies (RDF/OWL).
Technical Skills
Python (Django, Jupyter Notebooks, NLTK, Pandas, spaCy), Java, Octave, Ruby; HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, d3js, Vue, CSS, SASS, Foundation, Bulma, Jekyll; Subversion, Mercurial, Git; XML, XSLT, XSD, RNG; Apache Cocoon, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch; Apache Tomcat, Apache Ant; RDF/OWL, Protégé; SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, eXist DB, Redis, MongoDB, Firebase; Linux administration, AWS; Agile methodologies.
Experience
My work experience and training.
2018 —
Principal Research Software Engineer
King's Digital Lab, King’s College London
2015
Certification: Agile Project Management Practitioner
APMG
2015 — 2018
Software Engineer
King's Digital Lab, King’s College London
2013
Certification: Machine Learning
Coursera
2012 — 2015
Head of Research Development & Delivery
Department of Digital Humanitities, King’s College London
2006 — 2012
Research Fellow
Department of Digital Humanitities, King’s College London
2005 — 2006
Project Engineer
Critical Software
2001 — 2005
Software Developer
BookMARC
2001
MSc: Computer Science
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
1998
BSc: Informatics and Systems Engineering
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal
Projects
Some of the projects I am currently working on.
A Jekyll website for the British Museum African Rock Art Image project.
A set of tools/libraries to harvest and analyse data from public data portals.
Jupyter notebooks · Pandas · Python · REST
A collaborative platform to archive, catalogue, and transcribe items in the Royal Archives and Royal Library relating to the Georgian period, 1714-1837.
Django · REST · Vue · Wagtail
Nanotoms
A prototype for exposing multimedia digital assets in a way that includes narrative metadata, both static and dynamically generated.
Django · Neo4J · NLP · NLTK · Python
Jupyter notebooks with example workflows for training spaCy NER (name entity recognition) models from ancient languages.
Jupyter notebooks · Python · NLP · spaCy