Welcome!
On this page you will find information about my work and links to social media profiles.
I am the Head of Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure and Development at
the Atlantic International Research Centre. I have been at the Earth Observation Lab (AIR Centre)
- a laboratory of the European Space Agency (ESA) - since 2020, where I am responsible for:
- Senior project manager for building and setting up a data centre.
- Define and manage systems’ architectures for networking, storage and computation of the datacentre, which
I set up as a hybrid cloud.
- Setting up and managing the ground segment of the Direct Receiving Station, which streams and
processes Earth
Observation satellite data in real time.
- Data science pipelines.
- Software Development, inlcuding web
applications.
- Project management of various projects.
- Chief architect of the project Sistema de Alerta Pythomices Chartarum (which earned regional funding).
- Chief architect of the IoT network of the Azores.
- Chief architect of the Custodian system (which earned international funding).
- Coordinate the set up of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) node GRID Azores
Between 2010-13, I was Chairman and Chief Product Officer of the startup Strategic Spatial Solutions
Inc. which I co-founded in Berkeley, California.
- Led the board to deliver business strategy, while developing high governance standards.
- Definition of user requirements and use cases.
- Liaise with potential clients and final users.
- Software testing.
I am an alumnus of University College London, where I earned a PhD in architecture.
- I have (co-)authored scientific papers, including in Nature
Communications
- I have over 18 years of experience in higher education in Europe, the
UK, and the Middle East, where I was an Assistant Professor.
I am happiest while leading teams, strategising, playing with new ideas and stress-test them, brainstorming,
creating systems architectures, exploring a new dataset, and writing code.