Paul Spende
Principal Engineer at FoxyAI
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolPaul Spende is a Principal Engineer based in Porto with 8 years of experience building full-stack systems informed by data science and deep learning. He has moved between hands-on engineering and executive technical roles—CTO and Technical Director—leading AI-focused initiatives and pilots in Europe and Miami. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and ML stacks, Paul combines a formal CS foundation from Technische Universität Berlin with specialized nanodegrees in React and Deep Learning. His recent trajectory shows a pattern of scaling AI products from prototype to production, balancing architecture, team leadership, and delivery. Colleagues would note his blend of startup agility and formal engineering rigor, plus an appetite for applying research-grade models to real-world products. Based in Porto but experienced across international teams, he brings a pragmatic, end-to-end approach to building intelligent software.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
React Nanodegree, React Nanodegree at UdacityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinMaster of Science - MS Exchange Student, Master of Science - MS Exchange Student at RMIT University
German, englisch - toefl ibt 107, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (90)
scraper10
browser9
resume9
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selenium9
react9
chrome9
artificial-intelligence9
agent9
gpt8
javascript8
markdown8
chatgpt8
python8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paulsp94/fireData
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Firebase + R
Contributions:90 commits, 84 pushes in 11 months
firebase
paulsp94/mobile-flashcards
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
The mobile-flashcards app for the React Nanodegree from Udacity
Contributions:18 PRs, 38 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 8 months
mobile-flashcardsreactnanodegreeudacityreact-native
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