André Paraense
Co-founder & CPTO at PLAIN
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndré Paraense is a product engineering leader, entrepreneur and AI researcher with a PhD in Cognitive Architectures and over two decades of experience translating advanced research into production at startups and fintechs. As Co-founder and CPTO at Plain he combines expertise in GenAI, autonomous LLM agents and cognitive systems to democratise family-office grade investment strategies and scale advisory capacity by an order of magnitude. His career weaves deep robotics and multi-robot coordination research with hands-on engineering leadership—building teams, cloud architectures and ML-driven optimisation systems across Europe, Australia and Brazil. He has a proven track record of launching impact-driven startups (from food-waste and education apps to fintech) and contributing to open-source cognitive tooling from his academic work. Less obvious: he repeatedly bridges long-established optimisation problems (logistics, transport, underwriting) with cutting-edge LLM agent design to turn academic insights into commercial advantage. Based in London, he blends founder grit with research rigor to tackle structural inequality in financial services.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Cognitive Architectures, Ph.D. Cognitive Architectures at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (52)
facebook-sdk10
flutter-apps10
nano10
google10
firebase10
flutter-plugin9
facebook-analytics9
bolt9
sdk9
open-hardware9
launchdarkly9
flutter9
architectures9
dart9
crazyflie9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CST-Group/cst
Aug 2015 - Sep 2022
CST is the Cognitive Systems Toolkit, a toolkit for the construction of Cognitive Systems and Cognitive Architectures
Contributions:18 releases, 27 reviews, 162 commits in 7 years 1 month
architecturescstcognitivecognitive-systems
CST-Group/codelab-meca
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 10 months
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