Software Engineer
Teya
Building payments infrastructure for small businesses across Europe.
Open to interesting problems
Porto ·
Currently
Software Engineer, Teya
Building payments infrastructure for small businesses across Europe.
18/20
MSc GPA, FEUP
2+
Years shipping
Porto
Based in
Ricardo Cavalheiro
software engineer
Currently at Teya. Previously research at INESC TEC. MSc, University of Porto.
About
Still the kid who wanted to do what the others said I couldn't.
That curiosity turned into a Master's in Informatics and Computing Engineering at the University of Porto, and then led into my current job at Teya, where a mistake means a merchant doesn't get paid.
Along the way I spent a year at INESC TEC using large language models to anonymise clinical records. Research taught me a lot of valuable things that made me the engineer I am today.
Currently working on answering who you are and what you're allowed to do. For those who don't get it — authn and authz.
Experience
Researcher & Software Engineer
INESC TEC
Applied research on privacy-preserving data pipelines — large language models for healthcare data anonymization.
Education
Where the foundations were laid.
MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
18/20
Final grade
Focus
Full-stack development, distributed systems, software architecture and artificial intelligence.
Thesis
Large language models for healthcare data anonymization — developed with INESC TEC.
Read the dissertationThings I learned
One at a time
A few things I keep coming back to.
Click the deck, or wait.
On problems
You will never be able to create a solution if you never understood the problem.
On shipping
Don't try to make it perfect. Build the simplest thing that works and meets the requirements.
On code
Boring code is the best code.
On readers
Code is read far more often than it is written. Write for the next person.
On deleting
The best pull request is often the one that removes code.
On priorities
When everything is a priority, nothing is.
On trade-offs
In most cases the answer is "it depends" and almost everything is about trade-offs. Be able to say, clearly, why yours is the best one.
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