Miguel Alfaiate
CEO at Freelance Software Engineer
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolMiguel Alfaiate is a seasoned software engineer and CEO with over eight years building products and companies from Lisbon, combining hands-on development with business leadership at ALFASOFT.PT. He specializes in AI, financial markets, blockchain, serverless architectures, API integration, and automation, blending solution architecture with practical infrastructure and DevOps experience. His background includes freelance and consulting roles, commercial Android app development, and enterprise IT work across web, desktop, and payment systems. Miguel holds an MSc in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence from Instituto Superior Técnico and professional training in OutSystems, signaling strong formal foundations alongside applied skills. He is comfortable moving between strategic design and low-level implementation, having owned projects end-to-end—from Android app creation to Linux server and payment gateway management. A less obvious strength is his long-running mix of entrepreneurship and consulting, which hones both product intuition and client-facing delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Outsystems Support Engineer, Professional Outsystems Support Engineer at Outsystems AcademyMaster of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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73answers
68questions
winforms
top-5%
Github Skills (43)
winforms9
moodle9
cryptocurrency9
wallet8
provisioning8
lms8
deploying8
learning-management-system8
azure6
treeview6
php6
android6
docker6
tooling6
case-insensitive6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alfasoftpt/IEFP-Moodle-Azure
Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
Tooling and guidance on deploying Scalable Moodle Clusters on Azure.
Contributions:9 PRs, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
deployingscalableclustersguidanceazure
letheanVPN/lethean-browser-extension
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Lethean VPN/Proxy Browser Extension (Chrome)
Contributions:33 commits, 12 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 months
proxybrowservpnvpn-proxychrome
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