Gonçalo Cabrita
PhD Student at Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolGonçalo Cabrita is a robotics and AI engineer with 15 years of experience who translates advanced R&D into commercial automation and data products for agriculture, biotech, and food tech. As PhD student at Universidade de Coimbra and lead of Periplo Innovation at PlanetFarms, he designs robotic end-effectors, embedded control systems, and AI-driven environmental platforms that are now being spun out into B2B-ready solutions. His academic work on plume tracking, odor-source declaration and sensor-fusion complements hands-on expertise in ROS, real-time control and industrial IoT, enabling robust, modular systems from prototype to deployment. He previously co-founded CoolFarm, shipping a plug-and-play greenhouse AI control SaaS, demonstrating his ability to marry scientific rigor with entrepreneurial execution. Comfortable across hardware, firmware and cloud layers, he focuses on scalable architectures that reduce operational friction in vertical farming and bio-production. Off the lab bench he’s a mountain biker and a Star Wars fan—indicative of a practical, curious mindset that thrives on complex, mission-driven problems.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Automation and Robotics, Master's Degree, Automation and Robotics at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (11)
ros7
lists6
simulator5
robot4
simulation4
robotics3
camp3
serial-communication2
metal1
detector1
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
goncabrita/fsr_husky
Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:105 commits in 10 months
jbourne15/isr-uc-ros-pkg
Nov 2010 - Jun 2013
Contributions:412 commits in 2 years 7 months
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