Miguel Ferreira
Founding Engineer at Usawa Care
Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Ferreira is a founding engineer and MSc Computer Science candidate at IST with eight years of hands-on experience building AI-driven products, mobile apps, and frontend systems. He blends design sensibility with software engineering and self-supervised learning research, currently focusing his master's thesis on SSL techniques. At Unbabel he progressed from intern to tech lead, shipping SwiftUI iOS apps, fast prototyping across Python backends and Vue frontends, and leading cross-disciplinary teams that touch backend, AI, and mobile. He co-founded Usawa Care, demonstrating entrepreneurial grit and a product-first mindset alongside technical depth. A two-time Apple Swift Student Challenge winner, Miguel pairs practical implementation skills (FastAPI, scikit-learn, spaCy, Haystack) with Responsible AI experience from enterprise work at EDP. His profile combines curiosity-driven research, ethical AI practice, and a track record of moving prototypes into production.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Engineering at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de LisboaMaster of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (127)
plugin10
swift9
swiftpm9
server-side-swift9
openapi9
contrastive-learning9
tailwindcss9
animation8
postgresql8
nextjs8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
zod8
prisma8
turborepo7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
miguel-arrf/ES-2Sem-2021-Grupo-1
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Let's start this amazing journey :D
Contributions:2 releases, 146 commits, 44 PRs in 1 month
journeyletamazing
miguel-arrf/miguel-arrf
Feb 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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