José Paiva
Full Stack Engineer AI Specialist at Toptal
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Paiva is a Full Stack Engineer and AI Specialist with over a decade of experience designing and shipping research-driven educational software and web platforms. He blends hands-on full-stack development (REST/GraphQL APIs, web editors, integration with Keycloak and gamification services) with applied R&D from his PhD work, notably building tooling for automatic evaluation, exercise authoring, and pedagogical recommendation systems. José has led international development teams to produce production-ready components—JSON Schemas, converters, translation tools and large curated problem sets—demonstrating attention to reproducible data formats and interoperability. He has freelanced across energy, domain hosting and CRM integrations, showing pragmatic skills across PHP, Java, JS and cloud deployments. Based in Porto, Portugal, he’s comfortable moving between research and product delivery, and often surfaces non-obvious efficiencies by formalizing metadata and exchange formats to scale assessment and gamification workflows.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at DCC-FCUPDoctor's Degree Computer Science, Doctor's Degree Computer Science at Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (158)
file-browser10
svg10
svgjs10
animation10
easing10
administrator10
plugin10
javascript9
mongoose9
validation9
browser9
grammars9
database9
management9
abstract-syntax-tree9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
handspy/handspy-linguistics
Jun 2020 - May 2024
HandSpy is a web-based application for management and analysis of mental health aspects of individuals based on their textual productions, both handwritten and typewritten. As of v3, its codebase has been completely re-implemented in a microservice architecture. This repository contains the Linguistic Analysis microservice.
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
mental-healthmicroservice-architecturepythonmentalaspects
mooshak-dcc/asura-games
May 2018 - Oct 2020
Repository of games for Asura
Contributions:5 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
asuragames
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