Ricardo Grade
Senior Software Engineer at Talka.ai
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Grade is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience, currently a founding engineer at Talka.ai in Lisbon where he builds end-to-end AI-driven apps alongside former Google, Facebook and DeepMind researchers. He blends full-stack development with product-minded critical thinking to turn ML outputs into actionable insights for sales teams, owning features from inception to production. A Técnico MSc graduate, he has teaching and research experience—scoring top teaching evaluations while developing campus-focused apps and a location-certified smart tourism prototype during his master’s. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, Ricardo’s background shows a pattern of turning academic ideas into user-facing systems and collaborating closely with ML teams to ensure real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Secondary Education Socioeconomic Science, Secondary Education Socioeconomic Science at Secondary School IBN MucanaMaster's Degree Computer Science & Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Science & Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Spanish, PortugueseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Opty-Projects/Optyfolio
Jun 2020 - May 2022
My Portfolio - GitHub Page: https://github.com/RicardoGrade/RicardoGrade.github.io
Contributions:8 PRs, 209 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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Opty1337/Projects
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
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