Samuel Cardoso
Software Engineer at Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolSamuel Cardoso is a software engineer and educator from Minas Gerais with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, data pipelines, and AI-driven developer tools. He co-founded and technically led needyu.ai, shipping a full-stack Generative AI meeting copilot (React, Node.js, Terraform, AWS) and has driven AI platform work at major Brazilian enterprises including Itaú and SulAmérica. As a professor he teaches Generative AI and scalable data architecture, blending research on LLMs, MLOps and advanced agent techniques with practical engineering for code generation, reverse engineering and migration. Comfortable across backend, frontend and infra, he has a track record of replacing legacy monoliths with microservices, reverse-engineering COBOL into ASTs, and building production ML/agent solutions. His profile combines deep academic training (Master’s in Software Engineering and System Architecture) with startup grit and enterprise-scale delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computing master's degree System Architecture, Computing master's degree System Architecture at PUC MinasMaster's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (62)
objectionjs10
recommender-system9
typescript-rest9
filtering9
fault9
fault-tolerance8
api8
gateway8
rest8
information-retrieval8
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search8
vector8
search-engine8
similarity-search8
image-search8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
samuelcardoso/afj-final-tp
Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
samuelcardoso/camila
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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