José Brás
Business Continuity Researcher at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Brás is a seasoned IT services leader and researcher with 26 years' experience blending consulting, academic teaching, and applied research in business continuity and information systems. Based in Lisbon, he directs consulting at CGI while researching business continuity at INOV and teaching software engineering, BPMN, and IS management across several universities, supported by a PhD earned with distinction. He combines strategic client-facing leadership with hands-on technical contributions—evidenced by practical code fixes in the widely used LAStools LiDAR toolkit—bridging rigorous research and production code. Known for translating complex continuity and process-management challenges into teachable frameworks and implementable solutions, he thrives at the intersection of academia, consulting, and open-source engineering.
26 years of coding experience
Liceu CamoesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação, Aprovado com distinção e unanimidade, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação, Aprovado com distinção e unanimidade at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de LisboaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering and Information Systems, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering and Information Systems at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
LAStools/LAStools
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
efficient tools for LiDAR processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 2 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:José primarily focused on addressing compiler warnings and merging branches related to code improvements. They modified existing code, specifically within the `geoprojectionconverter.cpp`, `las2txt.cpp`, and `geoprojectionconverter.hpp` files, to resolve issues flagged by the compiler. Further, the user addressed code in `LASlib/src/laswriter.cpp` and `LASlib/src/lasreader_ply.cpp` to resolve compiler warnings as well as integrating updates to the LAS definitions. They also updated the LAS Tools version within the code.
lidar
JoseGoncalves/vue-jointjs
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
A Vue 3 with JointJS project
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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