Computer Engineer - Full Stack - DevOps - Data Science

José Luís Vieira S.

Computer Engineer

Albany, NY

Results-driven Computer Engineer with a Master's Degree and a proven track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Led the start and development of a SaaS company from 0 to 500 subscribers in less than a year. Specialized in full-stack development, devops engineering, and data science. Pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Goiás. U.S. LPR by means of an Advanced Degree / Exceptional Abilities visa.

Education

PhD Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dissertation: Data Classification by Dimension Reduction and Optimization of Distribution Differences

2020 ~ 2023 - Brazil – Federal University of Goiás

Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Thesis: Web Crawler for Social Network User Data Prediction Using Soft Computing Methods

2017 ~ 2019 - Brazil – Federal University of Goiás

Thesis IJCSIT Article

Exchange Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering

2013 ~ 2014 - United States – State University of New York at Oswego

Research Demo Video

Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering

Capstone Projetct: Telemetry and Navigation System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)

2010 ~ 2016 - Brazil – Federal University of Goiás

Capstone Project

Entrepreneurship & Work

Digital Marketing Agency

Kampana is a digital marketing agency that provides solutions to a wide variety of customers that ranges from independent professionals to large corporations locally and overseas since 2017. As Founder and currently Board Member, my work is focused in establishing the organization’s mission and purpose, as well conducting its strategic planning. Moreover, I also contribute to monitor and manage Kampana's financial resources, helping to ensure that the company is a healthy organization in every single aspect.

E-commerce SaaS

Klinko is a SaaS company that spin off from Kampana. Its line of business lies on automation for e-commerces, letting shopkeepers to focus and increase their sales. As Founding Partner and Tech Lead since 2022, I provide solid technical leadership in every facet of the company. As has been throughout all my career, my leadership skills and weighty business sharpness plays an essential role in this position. As always, I stay vigilant and well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts.

Process Analyst <small style="margin-left: 10px">Grupo Jaime Câmara - Brazil - 2016 ~ 2017</small>

Comprised of 24 communication vehicles, with offices in the State of Goiás and Tocantins, as well as in the Federal District, the Grupo Jaime Câmara (Jaime Câmara Group) has one of the largest cross media platforms in Brazil, mastering radio (8 stations), TV (11 stations), and newspaper (4 publishers) technology throughout many decades. As a Full Process Analyst, I had to use my problem-solving skills at the fullest to redesign and implement on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM the whole Sales Process of all the mentioned media segments.

With the full support of the company presidency and the IT department directorship, I was able to establish excellent relations with all the sales departments of the organization, resulting on the transformation and optimization of how sales were done. With a fully integrated process, from the lead to the customer, from the idea to the publication of the media on any of the cited vehicles, I've felt that my job wasn't done until I was able to provide decision-targeted reports to all my internal customers. So, in my last act during my journey on the company, I led the data analysis team to implement on Microsoft Power BI award winning dashboards which from the salesperson to the company CEO all the information was beautifully displayed on an organized and intuitive manner.

Summer Research Intern <small style="margin-left: 10px">SUNY Oswego - United States - 2014</small>

I've had the fantastic opportunity to lead a research focused on the development of a internal framework for a Baxter Research Robot unit from Rethink Robotics. Coding mainly with Java and Python, I was able to implement many demos for the robot and also to create a GUI that removed all the complexity of running tasks on the unity.

At the end of the research, I presented my work to the State University of New York at Oswego Engineering Advisory Board (EAB) by conducting a live demonstration with the robot. The EAB praised my accomplishments and stated that the project meets the board's vision to contribute a new generation of diverse, exceptionally well-prepared engineers for early leadership success in industry or graduate school.

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Hard Skills

Full Stack Developer

Throughout my career I have over 50 development projects (websites and webapps) successfully completed under my belt ranging from simple APIs and integrations to real-life Big Data applications. Regarding back-end technologies, Node.js and Express.js are the environment and framework that I have the most experience with. I'm also very familiar with SQL and No-SQL databases, such as MySQL and MongoDB. In front-end I'm well versed with HTML5, Pug (formerly known as Jade), CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, as well templates customizing and Bootstrap. It's also noteworthy that I have a huge experience with WordPress (customizing, improving SEO, etc).

DevOps Engineer

Over the years, I improved my skills as a Systems Administrator in order to get the most out of the projects that I was involved. Working with Linux and Windows server environments, over different cloud providers such as Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean and Microsoft Azure, I've learned to setup and optimize many kids of services, ranging from Reverse Proxies, Load Balancers, and many others. This path led me to become an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Validation No. ZBWZZZXDJN4Q1V32).

Data Scientist / Machine Learning Specialist

Since the college I've been in constant contact with machine learning, way before the current hype. Over my master's degree, I delved deeper on deterministic and non-deterministic classification methods, studying from simple linear regressions to neural networks. In fact, in my master's thesis, I developed a multilayer perceptron to predict the engagement of social media posts. Right now as s PhD candidate, I continue to expand my knowledge about classification and prediction methods, conducting a research on the impact of dimensionality reduction in the accuracy, precision, and recall of the algorithms. I'm familiar to MATLAB, ETLs, and tools such as Microsoft Power BI.

About Me

Hi there, pleased to meet you! My name is José, and I was born in Brazil in 1993. It would be no exaggeration to say that my story with computers started when I was four years old. As a little child, I was amazed about different technologies and wanted to understand how electronic equipment worked from the inside. Being that curious, I used to dissemble (and build up again) telephones, VCRs, radios, and all kinds of electronic equipment in order to grasp their functioning.

My father was a Systems Analyst, and after he retired, he continued to work freelancing by fixing computers. I enjoyed watching him work for hours, immersed and interested in what he was doing. It was not long until I realized that I was already fixing computers myself. So, during elementary, middle and high school, I used my free time to fix computers and earn some extra money. By the time I finished high school, I was fully sure that Computer Engineering was the right career for me.

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge, and now I am a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering of Federal University of Goiás. During my college education (I hold both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Goiás which I received in 2017 and 2019 respectively), I had a lifetime opportunity. I was granted a full scholarship from Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) to study Electrical and Computer Engineering in the United States for the Fall of 2013.

At the State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego), I led a robotics research based on a Baxter Research Robot unit. Coding mainly with Java and Python, I implemented many demos for the robot and created a GUI that removed all the complexity of running tasks. Studying and working in the U.S. was a transformative and successful experience. My grades reflected my dedication and commitment: I finished my studies at SUNY Oswego with a 3.83 GPA. In December of 2014, I left the U.S. and returned home to Brazil.

Over the past years, I've been dedicating my time to the academia and to the businesses that I founded. I'm a very active and curious person, always eager to learn more and more. I love my family, my wife, my kittens, my job, my life! I keep pushing to be better in every aspect that I can, and I'm really blessed for all I have. I'm obsessed with any space related thing, a passion that I inherited from my late father, and I think that this is the best time to be alive and testify humans becoming an interplanetary species. I'm also a huge fan of Formula 1, and I think this is getting too long. Wanna get to know me more? Get in touch!

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