André Paraense

Co-founder & CPTO at PLAIN

London, England, United Kingdom
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André 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.
code11 years of coding experience
job20 years of employment as a software developer
bookPh.D. Cognitive Architectures, Ph.D. Cognitive Architectures at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
languagesEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese
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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)

JavaC++CDartPython

Github contributions (5)

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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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André Paraense - Co-founder & CPTO at PLAIN