Alex Figueirêdo
Software Engineer at Encora Inc.
São João do Sabugi, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlex Figueirêdo is a software engineer and electronic engineer with around a decade of experience designing and implementing embedded and edge computing solutions across medical devices, digital TV, optical communications and energy sectors. He specializes in real-time embedded software on microcontrollers and Embedded Linux using C/C++ and Python, and has grown into solution architecture and project leadership roles spanning IoT, AI, distributed computing and data science. Certified as an AWS Solutions Architect Associate and trained in Leadership & Innovation at MIT Professional Education, he bridges hands-on low-level engineering with high-level system design and customer-facing project definition. At Instituto Atlântico he led PD&I project conception from problem discovery through ideation, architecture and resource planning, and today contributes to the OpenInfra StarlingX project at Encora, helping containerize OpenStack for NFV and edge use cases. Notably, his background includes building IoT platforms for healthcare and smart cities as well as real-time firmware for 100G/200G optical systems, demonstrating uncommon breadth across safety-critical and large-scale distributed domains. Based in northeastern Brazil, he combines practical embedded expertise with cloud-native and architectural fluency to deliver end-to-end, innovation-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Federal University of Campina GrandeInteruniversity Exchange Bachelor Embedded Systems Informatics, Interuniversity Exchange Bachelor Embedded Systems Informatics at Grenoble INP EsisarLeadership & Innovation, Leadership & Innovation at MIT Professional Education
French, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nutes-uepb/haniot-deploy
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
figueiredoAF/eks-blueprints-workshop-workloads
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
This repository serves as a sample GitOps configuration repository that is meant to be used with the Amazon EKS Blueprints CDK Quick Start and Amazon EKS Blueprints for Terraform.
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 month
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