Fernando Alves
Tech Lead Of The Research Line On Cybersecurity And Distributed Systems At VORTEX-CoLab
Loures, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolFernando Alves is a tech lead and research engineer with 11 years’ experience specializing in cybersecurity, distributed systems, and system-level engineering, currently leading the research line at VORTEX-CoLab while pursuing a PhD in security, machine learning, and open source intelligence. Comfortable across Linux administration, Bash, and Java — with practical C and Scala experience and an active transition to Python — he combines hands-on system building with academic rigor from LaSIGE and long-term European research projects. His background includes hands-on contributions to EU-funded initiatives (C2NET, e-Sens, SEGRID, BioBankCloud) and published work on reference compression for genomic data, reflecting an ability to turn research into practical tooling. Based in Loures, Lisbon, he seeks impactful challenges across IoT, security, distributed systems, and ML, and brings a scientist’s curiosity to both well-oiled and "not working" systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (31)
nmf10
minhash10
structural-variation10
twitter-api10
cancer-genomics9
twitter9
genomics-visualization9
population-genetics9
sequence-alignment8
bioinformatics8
arch7
veins7
python7
archlinux6
inet6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fernandoblalves/GetOldTweets-java
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
apiold-tweetsbypasstwitter-apitwitter
fernandoblalves/jdna
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 issues in 11 months
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