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Pedro Lourenco

Pedro Lourenco

Freelance Web Developer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Building virtual employees @ Tech Cortex | Computing student at the University of St Andrews

  • Education

    • King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford

      2021 - 2023
      A-Level 5 A*s

      Activities and Societies: -Part of the school football team -Part of the school cross-country team, qualifying for the Essex championships. -Part of the computing society Subjects studied:-Maths (A*)-Further Maths (A*)-Computer Science (A*)-Physics (A*)-EPQ (A*)

    • St Martin's School Brentwood

      2016 - 2021
      GCSE (9-1) 9 (maximum) in all subjects

      Activities and Societies: Part of the school football team, winning the Essex Cup. Part of the athletics team. School prefect Subjects studied:Maths: Grade 9English Language: Grade 9English Literature: Grade 9Physics: Grade 9Chemistry: Grade 9Biology: Grade 9Music: Grade 9Physical Education: Grade 9Computer Science: Grade 9RE (religion and ethics): Grade 9Portuguese: Grade 9

    • University of St Andrews

      2023 - 2026
      Bachelor's degree Computer Science

  • Experience

    • Fiverr

      Jun 2020 - Sept 2023
      Freelance Web Developer

    • Tech Cortex

      May 2023 - now
      Founder

    • JPMorganChase

      Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
      Software Engineering Summer Intern

    • STATIC St. Andrews

      Sept 2024 - now
      Head of Technology

      - Led the recruitment of innovative technology writers- Provided strategic guidance and oversight to writers- Contributed to publications by authoring and reviewing scientific reports

    • University of St Andrews

      Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
      Research Intern

      • Took part in the St Andrews Research Internship (StARIS) program, working on a project to develop a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to help social researchers extract insights from large email corpora.• Used Hugging Face to host models locally and integrated Chroma DB as a local vector database solution.• Experimented with techniques including Hypothetical Document Extraction (HyDE), parent document retrieval and metadata filtering to come up with a novel approach. • Wrote a final report explaining my methodology and highlighting areas of possible future research. Also created documentation with clear set-up instructions. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • C1 Level in Portuguese

      Instituto Camoes de Portugal
      Jun 2023

    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Aug 2024
      View certificate certificate

    • J.P. Morgan - Software Engineering Job Simulation

      Forage
      Dec 2023
      View certificate certificate

    • Grade 8 in guitar

      Trinity College London
      Jul 2022

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Pedro Lourenco
      Gold award in physics computational challenge British physics olympiad Jan 2023 Built a model of the atmosphere using python and integrated it in a mobile app using flask and flutter.