Pedro R
Principal Engineer at Talkdesk
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro R is a Principal Engineer based in Lisbon with over a decade building scalable AI-driven and cloud-native systems, currently advancing Conversational AI at Talkdesk. He has led AI product strategy and MLOps from research to production as Head of AI at Altice Labs, turning innovation into revenue through voice and chatbots powered by LLMs and ASR. His background blends hands-on software architecture, Kubernetes and GitOps pipelines, and security-focused engineering with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and running cross-functional teams. Early experience in telecom and IoT gave him deep systems and real-time expertise that informs his approach to resilient, geo-redundant platforms. Notably, he has a track record of shipping production ML pipelines and daily delivery practices that bridge research experiments to customer-facing services.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English Certificate English Language, English Certificate English Language at Cambridge School of LondonComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (21)
espressif9
k0s8
iot8
rest7
operating-system7
azure6
openapi6
linux6
swagger6
kubernetes6
rust5
rest-api5
logstash5
modem4
elasticsearch4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pedro-n-rocha/bli223dcryptex
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
pedro-n-rocha/pedro-n-rocha.github.io
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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