José Pereira
Research Coordinator
Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Pereira is a research leader and educator with 21 years of experience in dependable distributed systems, currently coordinating research at INESC TEC and serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Minho. His work spans data management (storage, replication, transactions, polystores) and group communication (consensus, HyParView, PlumTree), with practical outputs like CloudMdsQL and TiQuE. He combines rigorous academic research—holding a PhD from Universidade do Minho—with industry experience as a co-founder of Eurotux and a former CTO at LeanXcale, bridging theory and production systems. José also focuses on tooling for testing, evaluation, and monitoring of large-scale distributed systems, an often-overlooked but critical part of dependability. Based in Braga, Portugal, he has a history of international academic collaboration, including a visiting faculty stint at Carnegie Mellon. Colleagues value him for turning complex distributed algorithms into usable platforms and pragmatic evaluation frameworks.
21 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universidade do Minho
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jopereira/minha
Aug 2012 - Jun 2022
Contributions:252 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
jopereira/java-tpcw
Nov 2012 - Dec 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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