Summary
Rui Varela is a hands-on CTO and seasoned developer with over a decade building real-time video, biometrics and mobile systems across C++, Java, Python and Android ecosystems. He led design and delivery of Vision-Box’s intelligent CCTV and multimodal biometric solutions used at border control and eGate deployments, and later scaled AI-driven video processing and CUDA pipelines for consumer apps like Triller and Rocketbook (collective apps surpassing 10M+ downloads). Comfortable moving between research and product, Rui cut his teeth in R&D at ADETTI/ISCTE on graphics, VR and HCI before applying those skills to production-grade streaming, GLSL shader work and embedded integrations. As founder/CTO of eyenov he blends algorithmic depth with hardware integration to solve multifactorial problems, while contributing Android and media-engine expertise at Videoshop and other startups. A pragmatic engineer who still codes, he pairs academic rigor with a track record of deploying complex, high-performance systems in the wild — and amusingly confesses on GitHub that he doesn't know how to swim.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science and Business Management, 15 of 20, BSc, Computer Science and Business Management, 15 of 20 at Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa