André Pires
Head Of Digital Payments at Uphold
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolAndré Pires is a seasoned payments-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience building backend systems, currently serving as Head of Digital Payments at Uphold in Porto. He progressed through senior and lead engineering roles at Uphold, SaltPay and Switch, combining hands-on architecture work with team leadership to deliver reliable, production-grade payment services. His background includes NLP research and web development, giving him a rare mix of applied research instincts and pragmatic product engineering. André holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from FEUP and is known for translating complex payments and compliance requirements into scalable, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
451reputation
38kreached
13answers
6questions
Github Skills (22)
named-entity-extraction10
named-entity-recognition10
nltk10
opennlp10
spacy10
android-app10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
qr-code10
android9
validatorjs8
jquery-selectors6
xml6
xpath6
android-studio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arop/ner-re-pt
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Named entity extraction from Portuguese web text
Contributions:252 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 5 months
named-entity-extractionnlpstanford-corenlpopennlpspacy
arop/arop.github.io
Jul 2017 - Feb 2024
My personal website
Contributions:4 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 7 months
reactnextjs
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