João Fortuna
Member Of Technical Staff, Core Experience at Anchorage Digital
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Fortuna is a multidisciplinary engineering leader with 13 years of experience building autonomous and data-driven systems, now contributing to core experience at Anchorage Digital. He has led and scaled teams designing unmanned marine systems, seafloor instruments, and embedded software, while defining product roadmaps and high-level architectures across hardware and software boundaries. His background spans PhD-level cybernetics, robotics, control, and hyperspectral data analysis, enabling him to bridge academic research and product delivery effectively. João’s career is marked by cross-disciplinary collaboration—from neuroscientists to oceanographers—and a penchant for turning complex, domain-specific problems into practical engineering solutions. Known for mentoring engineers and shaping hiring and technical strategy, he brings both hands-on development experience and systems-level thinking to challenging, data-rich environments.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoMaster's degree Robotics Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Master's degree Robotics Mechatronics and Control Engineering at Chalmers University of TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Portuguese, English, French, Norwegian
Github Skills (23)
robotics10
modularity10
dune10
ros10
mavlink9
autopilot9
java9
rover9
plane9
api9
arduino9
cpp8
gnu8
infrastructure8
uniform8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jffortuna/ardupilot
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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