Rui Vas
Chief AInaut at Techstars
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Vas is an award-winning systems engineer and AI product leader with 8 years of experience building startups and shaping MLOps strategy for Ubuntu/Canonical in partnership with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo and Nvidia. He co-founded multiple AI ventures across Silicon Valley, Switzerland and Portugal, launching products from pharma automation robots to one of the first AI-generated audiobooks on Audible. Hands-on across research, product and GTM, Rui has led documentation and releases for Kubeflow, rebuilt go-to-market offerings at GenAI adtech, and prototyped scalable AI solutions in healthcare to improve patient education. He combines technical depth in robotics and ML with founder grit—coding MVPs, running accelerators, and iterating through hard pivots like Radiobooks to find viable B2B models. Now based in Lisbon, he advises startups, mentors founders at Techstars and Founder Institute, and teaches in high-end AI programs, uniquely blending open-source stewardship with practical product delivery. An understated strength: he repeatedly turns experimental prototypes into paid POCs, even when product-market fit remains elusive, demonstrating fast learning and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Research Internship, Robotics, Research Internship, Robotics at EPFLSilicon Valley Startup Accelerator, Silicon Valley Startup Accelerator at Founder InstituteMSc, Mechatronic Systems Engineering, MSc, Mechatronic Systems Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (72)
notebook10
kubeflow10
kedro10
huggingface10
automl10
governance10
snap10
ai10
lightgbm10
hyperparameter-tuning10
kubeflow-pipelines10
neural-architecture-search10
kubernetes10
jupyter10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RFMVasconcelos/website
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Kubeflow's public website
Contributions:1 PR, 159 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 2 months
kubeflowkubernetes
RFMVasconcelos/community
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Information about the Kubeflow community including proposals and governance information.
Contributions:34 pushes in 7 months
kubeflow-communityproposalskubeflowkubernetesgovernance
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