André Santos
PhD Researcher at INESC Technology and Science - Associate Laboratory
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolAndré Santos is a PhD researcher and fullstack developer based in Porto with 15 years of software engineering experience and a backend-first mindset. He specializes in NLP, semantic web and knowledge graphs, blending academic research at INESC TEC with practical engineering work such as expanding a domain-specific language for dynamic data modeling at Decipad. Comfortable across JavaScript, MongoDB and Docker, he has taught MSc courses in NLP and data visualization, signaling strong communication and mentoring skills. His career bridges research and production systems, from SAPO and Contentful backend work to hands-on sysadmin roots, which explains his pragmatic approach to building robust, deployable language-and-semantics solutions.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Bioinformatics, 17, Master's degree, Bioinformatics, 17 at Universidade do MinhoEB. 1º Ciclo FraiãoNatural Science, Natural Science at Escola Secundária Carlos AmaranteEB 2º e 3º Ciclos de NogueiraMAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science, Informatics, MAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science, Informatics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
andrefs/sb-projects-beatriz
Jul 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches, 3 comments in 9 years 2 months
andrefs/punuy-datasets
May 2024 - Jun 2026
A collection of quantitative datasets, gathered from the academic literature, for the evaluation of semantic measures between concepts or entities. Currently focused on the English and Portuguese languages.
Contributions:41 releases, 37 PRs, 162 pushes in 2 years
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