Experience
Timeline of roles across applied AI, research, and strategic advisory.
Splendor AI
Open-source kernel for self-managed neuro-symbolic agents.
Jan 2026 — Present · 2026
Applied AI
Geographically independent
- • Designing an open-source kernel for self-managed neuro-symbolic agents
- • Defining system-wide safety primitives, reward/state loops, and distributed execution
- • Exploring Rust + Python interfaces for multi-tenant agent orchestration
Universo AI
Exploratory agent systems for physics and space research.
Jan 2026 — Present · 2026
Director of AI Agents
Geographically independent
- • Supervising early-stage agent systems for physics and space research
- • Translating physical theory into simulation pipelines with empirical falsification
- • Evaluating prototype viability with human-in-the-loop oversight
ValueAI
Nonprofit building open AI training data infrastructure.
Jan 2026 — Present · 2026
Applied AI
Geographically independent
- • Building nonprofit infrastructure for open, reusable training data
- • Advancing responsible AI innovation through transparent datasets
- • Coordinating agent workflows for scalable data creation
Antunes Principal
AI holdings and strategic advisory for ambitious ventures.
Jan 2026 — Present · 2026
Independent Consultant
Geographically independent
- • First-principles AI advisory for founders and enterprise leaders
- • AI holdings and strategic advisory for ambitious ventures
- • Guiding applied AI roadmaps, governance, and model evaluation
Swivver
Swipe-first news experience with curated summaries.
Jan 2026 — Present · 2026
Applied AI
Geographically independent
- • Exploring AI-driven news experiences optimized for mobile consumption
- • Prototyping intelligent curation pipelines for swipe-first interfaces
Vaisys
Value-driven, privacy-first AI systems for enterprises.
Mar 2025 — Present · 2026
CEO, Founder
Geographically independent
- • Founded Vaisys to deliver privacy-first, value-driven AI for enterprises
- • Leading strategy, operations, and investor relations
- • Building long-term AI systems focused on trust and measurable outcomes
Jan 2023 — Present · 2026
Applied AI Scientist
Geographically independent
- • Researching specialized transformer architectures for unique enterprise use cases
- • Curated and validated datasets exceeding 50B tokens for 2B-parameter models
- • Driving reliability for agent systems operating in dynamic environments
DefensePoint
May 2025 — Oct 2025
AI Tech Lead Consultant
Lisbon Metropolitan Area
- • Led AI project initiatives and aligned delivery to security requirements
Nov 2024 — May 2025
ML Engineer, Data Scientist
Braga, Portugal
- • Designed an authentication system combining ML risk scoring with secure UX
- • Balanced security enforcement with usability across sensitive workflows
Checkmarx
Sequence classification pipeline inspired by Longformer architecture.
Jul 2024 — Oct 2024
Software, Machine Learning Engineer
Braga, Portugal
- • Finetuned open-source autoregressive models with proprietary data
- • Applied QLoRa techniques to improve performance on constrained hardware
Mar 2024 — Jun 2024
Software, Machine Learning Engineer
Braga, Portugal
- • Built transformer-based sequence classification pipelines inspired by Longformer
- • Engineered tokenization processes and managed the training infrastructure
Certifications
Professional training spanning GPU acceleration, deep learning, and security.
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Fundamentals of Deep Learning
2022
Course covering neural network training, optimization techniques, and deployment strategies with NVIDIA GPU tooling.
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++
2022
Program covering CUDA programming, parallel computing fundamentals, and GPU acceleration techniques.
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science with RAPIDS
2022
Data science acceleration using RAPIDS for GPU-accelerated data processing and analytics.
NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
Disaster Risk Monitoring Using Satellite Imagery
2022
Course on applying computer vision and deep learning to satellite imagery for disaster monitoring.
Google Career Certificates
Google Advanced Data Analytics
2023
Data analytics program covering statistical analysis, machine learning, and data visualization techniques.
Checkmarx Ltd.
Security Champion
2024
Certification covering application security and secure development methodologies.