Gonçalo Almeida
Automotive & Off-Road Principal Engineer at Critical Software
Portugal
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Top SchoolGonçalo Almeida is an Automotive & Off-Road Principal Engineer based in Portugal with nine years of experience designing and delivering high-integrity embedded systems across automotive, rail, defense and scientific domains. He combines hands-on C++ and systems engineering expertise—vSomeIP, CANopen, Yocto, SysML and IBM DOORS—with leadership in project support, technical sales, and resource planning at Critical Software. His background includes middleware development at BMW, product ownership and team leadership, plus work on safety-critical and CMMI5-audited projects such as military Android systems and SKA data-processing prototypes. Known for bridging client-facing roles and deep technical execution, he helps translate complex requirements into auditable, maintainable architectures that meet cost and schedule constraints.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer, Software Engineer at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de CoimbraCourse of Science and Technology High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Course of Science and Technology High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Escola Secundária da Mealhada
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (15)
vsomeip10
middleware10
service-discovery10
scalable10
automotive10
api9
dbus8
ipc7
cpp7
consistency6
database-access5
tooling5
imaging2
pipeline2
proto2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
goncaloalmeida/vsomeip
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 37 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
goncaloalmeida/capicxx-core-runtime
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year
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