Curriculum Vitae

My current research work focuses on the topic of developer experience patterns. This work is being supervised by Professor Ademar Aguiar from the University of Porto and Professor Vasco Amaral from the NOVA University of Lisbon. From October 2021 to September 2025, I was supported by a PhD research grant (reference: 2021.08371.BD) from FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

This additional training course taught me to think in a more pedagogical sense when preparing and teaching classes. I learned how to prepare a course syllabus in a way that gives students ownership of their learning processes, in addition to providing them with more interesting and engaging classes.

My Master’s dissertation combined the topics of communication, agile methodologies and patterns. In my work, I gathered information about effective communication in agile software development contexts, identifying good practices and common solutions to increase the quality of existing communication and collaboration. These practices were then sorted out into environment, activity, and people patterns.

I worked on a research project related to a low-code software development platform. My duties in this project related to implementing a text-based paradigm that enabled users to perform development tasks by describing relevant aspects. This research grant (reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039661) was supported by FEUP under the project Portugal 2020.

I coordinated one of the local organisation’s departments, provided support for event core team members, managed the organisation’s image, including its social media pages and campaigns, and assisted with training organisation members’ hard skills regarding this area.

BEST Porto is a local group of the Board of European Students of Technology, which is a non-profit, non-governmental student organisation spread across 32 European countries that aims to develop students across the continent. Over those two and a half years, I had the chance to greatly develop my soft skills, broaden my horizons, and contribute to events happening in my university.

BEST Courses are events where the association hosts international participants for an immersive learning experience that lasts for over a year. For the 2019 course, I managed the timeline for the ten months we spent preparing the course, maintained written records of team activities, and managed the organisation’s human resources during the event. In the end, the event was awarded with a quality award by the international branch of BEST.

I managed the image and promotion of a student competition event, overhauled its visual identity, and managed several supporting smaller teams.