Rui Figueiredo
Co-Founder at Casa do Beco
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Figueiredo is a Lisbon-based CTO and co-founder with a decade of experience building AI-driven products and teams, currently leading DareData’s growth as it delivers bespoke data and ML solutions across sectors and countries. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, AWS, React) with strategic leadership, scaling a 50+ specialist team that embeds AI into pharmaceuticals, telecoms, banking and more. Rui also channels his entrepreneurial spirit into Casa do Beco, a retreat-style workspace designed to spark remote team collaboration, and has taught data science to entry-level practitioners through a volunteer academy. His background includes applied research and ML engineering roles, giving him a practical edge in moving models from prototype to production. While he’s primarily a builder and operator, he’s known for creating environments—both technical and physical—that accelerate teams’ creativity and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (64)
feature-engineering10
feature-selection9
data-monitoring9
robot9
automated-machine-learning9
yarp9
python8
ros8
scikit-learn8
machine-learning8
automl8
data-quality8
simulation8
data-validation8
data-science7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
btoztas/breakingdev
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
vislab-tecnico-lisboa/people_detection
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 issue in 4 months
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