Nuno Ferreira
Sr. Advisor at SURF
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNuno Ferreira is a Sr. Advisor with 12 years of experience enabling researchers to run science on distributed infrastructures, from academic clusters to pan‑European grid and cloud platforms. Based in Amsterdam, he blends hands-on system and service delivery skills with IT Service Management principles to translate researcher needs into reliable e‑infrastructure services and products. His career spans roles as product owner and user support lead in large European projects (EGI-InSPIRE, BioVeL) and long-term engineering at SURF and SURFsara, giving him deep domain expertise in scientific computing and service orchestration. Trained as a PhD chemist with postgraduate work in distributed computing, he uniquely bridges structural biology research workflows and the technical ecosystems that scale them. Notably, he has led marketplace product work and coordinated distributed support teams—skills that combine technical empathy with program-level coordination.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Basic education (2nd cycle), Basic education (2nd cycle) at Ciclo Preparatório de Oliveira do Bairro, AveiroBasic education (1st cycle), Basic education (1st cycle) at Escola Primária da Palhaça, AveiroPre-School, Pre-School at Creche de Águeda, AveiroDistributed Computing, Distributed Computing at Utrecht UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biological Chemistry, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biological Chemistry, summa cum laude at Universidade de CoimbraBasic education (3rd cycle) & Secondary school, Sciences, Basic education (3rd cycle) & Secondary school, Sciences at IPSB - Instituto de Promoção Social da Bairrada
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (16)
google-workspace10
gmail10
gmail-api10
cli9
api9
command-line-tool9
hpc8
administration8
macos8
homebrew8
binaries8
command-line7
golang7
python4
grid2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nunolf/Complete-Python-Bootcamp
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pythonpython3python-bootcamp
sara-nl/clouddocs
Jan 2016 - Apr 2022
HPC Cloud documentation
Contributions:534 commits, 9 PRs, 543 pushes in 6 years 3 months
hpc
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