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Hello and nice to meet you, my name is Christian and I'm a full time software engineer (full-stack Javascript), published poet, amateur musician, and hobbyist photographer.

I graduated (B.Sc.) in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and completed my M.Sc. in Information Systems in the same institution. I spent one full year in the Polytechnic Institute of Catalunya (Barcelona) through the European interchange programme Erasmus Mundus. I also worked for almost two years at the research laboratory LabMAG (Laboratório de Modelação de Agentes), where after delivering my thesis, I continued working on project NAADIR.

I am interested in topics as wide as web development, computer graphics, video-game design, crypto-currency/fintech, artificial intelligence, data science, artificial life, literature, cinema, music and philosophy.

I have worked in various types of organization (academic, multinational, startup, etc) and am currently working at Trouva, where I find a fulfilling day-by-day, complete with a purposeful mission, fast development and a lot of growth. I often volunteer for projects that might have some meaning to me, but I am also open to provide services as a contractor - mostly for web projects, but also video-games, or others, so if you have a project that you think would be interesting to discuss, do get in touch and we can talk about it.

Certifications

- Advanced C++ Concepts

- Advanced Python Programming

- Complete Android N Developer

- Live-Media & Pure Data

- Amadeus Open Back-End

- Oracle Database 11g: SQL Tuning

- React 16 Complete

Volunteering

- Cultura no Muro

- VolNepal

- EPIA 2011

- FCUL

Languages

- English

- Portuguese

- French

- Spanish

- Italian

I am a big fan of Tom Waits, L.W. Beethoven, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hidetaka and Hayao Miyazaki, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, José Afonso, Hideo Kojima, Byung-Chul Han, Carlos Paredes, Masunobu Fukuoka, Terrence McKenna, Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Beatles, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dinosaur Jr., Werner Herzog, George Orwell, Stanley Kubrick, Charles Bukowski, Orson Welles, among many many many others that make one proud of being a human.