João Patacas
Research Associate
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Patacas is a research associate and software-minded engineer with a PhD in Civil Engineering and eight years’ experience applying BIM, GIS, and urban digital twin technologies to energy efficiency and demand response in the built environment. He blends academic research with hands-on software development—having built full-stack web apps integrating Mapbox and IFC.js and delivered interoperable, decentralized data solutions for Building Management Systems in Horizon Europe projects. Comfortable leading independent projects and collaborating across multidisciplinary European consortia, he has steered work from reality-capture and 3D aerial modelling to UX-informed social housing design. His background in cloud computing and data analytics complements a practical knack for turning complex simulation and GIS data into test-covered, production-ready software.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Skills bootcamp in Cloud Computing and Data Analytics, Skills bootcamp in Cloud Computing and Data Analytics at Edge Hill UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Civil Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Civil Engineering at Universidade Nova de LisboaCivil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden / TU DresdenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Civil Engineering at Teesside University
Portuguese, English, French, German
Github Skills (5)
aec8
architecture7
ifc5
bim5
javascript4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jpatacas/sbem-ifcjs
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:51 commits, 20 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
jpatacas/properties
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
A project made to this brief: https://gist.github.com/msgilling/53f4954b9818eace10d88c0b09854501#deliverables
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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