Summary
Luis Gonçalves is a seasoned embedded systems leader with 11+ years building safety-critical fire detection and telemetry products, now serving as Technical Director at Snido. He combines deep hands-on expertise in PCB design, bare-metal and RTOS embedded software (where he spends over 90% of his time), and technical documentation to take hardware-software products from concept to certified fielded systems. His career blends long tenure in R&D for fire safety with entrepreneurial experience founding a telematics startup using LoRa and Sigfox, giving him both product and connectivity domain fluency. Colleagues know him for a relentless drive toward excellence and for mentoring teams while staying intensely curious about new technologies. Based in the Algarve, Portugal, he favors pragmatic engineering that protects lives and property and enjoys sharing knowledge as part of his daily workflow.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Liceu João de Deus
Eng. Tec., Electronics, Telecomunications, Eng. Tec., Electronics, Telecomunications at Universidade do Algarve
English, Portuguese