Alberto Simões

Braga, Braga, Portugal

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Alberto Simões is an AI Engineer and NLP researcher with a PhD and over 20 years of software engineering experience, blending deep language-processing research with hands-on systems development. He has a long history in the Perl ecosystem—contributing to CPAN, Dancer/Dancer2, and the Parrot VM—demonstrating expertise in parsers (ANTLR, Yacc, Tree-Sitter), AST construction, and language tooling. At Checkmarx he focused on parsing languages and transforming ASTs for a SAST engine, and his background spans platform architecture, DevOps, and test automation across Linux and cloud environments. An academic and educator as well as an editor for a regional NLP journal, he bridges research and production engineering, often improving legacy codebases and addressing memory and correctness issues. Based in Braga, Portugal, he’s a passionate programming-languages pragmatist who prefers low-level control and reliability over hype.

20 years of coding experience

25 years of employment as a software developer

PhD Natural Language Processing, PhD Natural Language Processing at Universidade do Minho

English, Portuguese

Github Skills (18)

apidoc10

text-manipulation10

perl10

parrot10

api10

web-framework10

tcl10

mime-types10

test-automation10

api-design9

serialization9

c119

data-serialization9

memory-management9

http9

Programming languages (23)

C#JavaC++CSSCRustTeXParrot

Github contributions (5)

PerlDancer/Dancer

Dec 2010 - Apr 2015

The easiest way to write web applications with Perl (Perl web micro-framework)

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:575 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 4 months

Contributions summary:Alberto made several contributions focused on enhancing the Dancer web framework's functionality. They implemented support for template extension configuration, added depreciation warnings to existing methods, and moved code related to MIME types to a dedicated module for better organization. Furthermore, the user worked on features like supporting content-type abbreviations and file sending with absolute paths, indicating a focus on improving the framework's core features and usability. Finally, they removed deprecated code, further improving the framework's codebase and contributing to its maintenance.

micro-frameworkperlframework

PerlDancer/Dancer2

Aug 2011 - Oct 2017

Perl Dancer Next Generation (rewrite of Perl Dancer)

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:291 commits, 33 PRs, 39 pushes in 6 years 2 months

Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Dancer2 framework, particularly focusing on request handling and component design. They modified the request object, adding attributes and implementing features related to content type, serialization, and forwarding requests. The user also enhanced the framework's DSL with new methods for setting and retrieving content and headers. These changes indicate a focus on the underlying architecture and API of the framework.

perl

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