Luis Gonçalves
Development Team Member at Free-lance consulting engineering and IT management
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Gonçalves is an experienced IT and engineering leader with 11+ years delivering drone inspection services and cloud-enabled solutions across Southern Europe and LATAM. At Sulzer Schmid Laboratories he combined operational hub management with hands-on development of automated drone systems, bridging field operations and IT strategy to scale services. He contributes to the ArduPilot community as a technical writer, improving documentation and tutorials for a widely used open-source flight stack. With a background spanning Microsoft solution roles, freelance consulting, and executive advisory work, he excels at turning complex technical requirements into practical, customer-facing solutions. Based in Lisbon, he blends marine and electronic engineering roots with executive-level management training to guide cross-disciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PAGE - Advanced Management Programme for Executives, Economics, PAGE - Advanced Management Programme for Executives, Economics at Universidade Católica PortuguesaBach, Marine Engineering, Bach, Marine Engineering at Escola Náutica Infante D. HenriqueIncomplete, Electronic Engineering, Incomplete, Electronic Engineering at ISEL-Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
rs10
restructuredtext10
editing10
documentation10
edit10
sphinx9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ArduPilot/ardupilot_wiki
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Repository for ArduPilot wiki issues and wiki-specific website infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:34 commits, 50 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Luis primarily contributed to the ArduPilot wiki documentation. Their commits focused on updating existing documentation, adding new tutorials, and correcting outdated information. The user's work included updating installation guides, adding video demonstrations, and incorporating new project partners, ultimately enhancing the accessibility and comprehensiveness of the wiki.
ardupilotinfrastructuretiddlywiki5autopilotwiki
lvale/MavLink_FrSkySPort
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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