Summary
João Cardoso is a Senior AI Platform Engineer with nine years of experience who transitioned from ML research into platform engineering and cloud DevOps, currently shaping AI infrastructure at InstaDeep after a year automating platforms at SHARE NOW. He specializes in Kubernetes, operators, Helm, Terraform, AWS and Prometheus, focused on reducing infrastructure cognitive load for developer teams and productionizing ML workloads. His background includes NLP and medical imaging research, giving him a strong grounding in ML model requirements that informs his platform decisions. Based in Berlin, he blends hands-on engineering with a product-minded approach to observability and developer experience. Outside work he pursues endurance activities, tabletop games and ambitious language learning—aiming for C2 German by 2026—which reflects his discipline and curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish