Rui Mendes

Experience

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  Secção de Badminton da Associação Académica de Coimbra

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2023

  Director
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  CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2017

  Scientific Initiation Scholarship

  Theme: Data-driven approaches for urban mobility and land use analysis.Research initialization scholarship.Involved familiarization with the datasets and data analysis techniques, setting up and analyzing an experiment.Development of RESTful web services in Java.

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  CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra

  May 2020 - Sept 2020

  Scientific Research Scholarship

  Study and definition of strategies for the automatic production of alternative answers for user interactions that are considered to be out of the domain of a conversational agent.Utilization of methodologies of automatic recommendation and generation of text, with creative value.Development made in Python, using libraries such as: Tensorflow, Scipy, Numpy, Scikit-learn.

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  Decode

  Sept 2020 - Apr 2021

  Software Developer

  @ Timwetech- Worked on integrating systems, following concepts of gamification. Development made in Java, using Maven as the main project management tool and Subversion as the version control tool.- Assisted the Business Intelligence team within a data engineer role, managing data reports and extractions for multiple clients, using Oracle relational database management system and writing PL/SQL queries.

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  Aubay

  Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

  Data Engineer

  Data Engineer @ Critical TechWorks

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  Redlight Software

  Oct 2021 - now

  Machine Learning Engineer

  NLP pipeline development for feature extraction and multilabel text classification, applied to long documents within a specific domain. Training and adaptation of Large Language Models (LLM) to solve multi-label text classification problems with hundreds labels. Managed MLOps pipelines, automating processes such as data quality verification, model training and evaluation. Also implemented monitoring and automated model deployment systems based on model performance.