André Pires

I'm currently a lead software engineer at Uphold where offer a unique trading experience and help people and businesses have access to safe, transparent, fair, and affordable financial services. Previously, I worked at Teya (formerly SaltPay), where we developed fast and secure payment solutions that helped small and medium-sized businesses better manage and grow their operations; and at Switch S.A., where we worked with a micro-services architecture to make online payments easier and better. I was researcher at INESC TEC and finished the Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering at FEUP, where my Master thesis - Named entity extraction from Portuguese web text - was in the Information Extraction field, where its main purpose was to find a way to extract entities from Portuguese texts. My main skills are mainly related to web and mobile development, and also in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Data Mining. My main interests focus on web and mobile development, data bases and data mining. Apart from informatics, I enjoy playing the piano.