Summary
João Paulo is an assistant professor at Universidade do Minho and a senior researcher at HASLab/INESC TEC with 14 years of experience focused on reliable distributed storage and storage-centric tooling. He leads the Distributed Storage research team, working on software-defined storage architectures, deduplication, stackable filesystems, and storage security while optimizing solutions for HPC and AI workloads. João also develops benchmarking, monitoring and debugging tools to provide rigorous evaluation and diagnosis of large-scale storage systems. His background spans academia and industry—co-founding SafeCloud Technologies—bringing both research rigor and product-oriented engineering to storage and database problems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MsC, Computer Science and Systems Engineering, MsC, Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French