Summary
Nuno Mota is a technical lead and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building research-driven products and leading engineering teams across Europe and the US. Currently based in Oslo, he advances Curipod’s product platform after rising from Senior Product Engineer to Technical Lead, while also serving as Entrepreneur in Residence at Interlock Capital. His background blends academic research at Max Planck and EPFL with hands-on roles at CERN and IBM, and he’s founded and led multiple startups including NEVEMIND and Missing Link. Comfortable spanning from deep learning research to product engineering, he excels at turning exploratory science into production-ready systems. A polyglot engineer with a track record of moving between research labs and startups, he brings both rigorous technical depth and founder’s pragmatism to scaling teams and products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Science and Technologies, High School Diploma Science and Technologies at Colegio Rainha Santa Isabel
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at EPFL
Bachelor's degree Informatics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Informatics Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French