Sandro Machado
SVP Consumer Engineering at Uphold Inc.
Braga, Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolSandro Machado is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing mobile and frontend products, currently serving as SVP Consumer Engineering at Uphold. He combines hands-on expertise in JavaScript, Java, Swift, Objective-C and React Native with a strategic focus on simplicity, agility and quality to deliver high-satisfaction products. At Uphold he progressed from mobile developer to SVP, leading cross-functional teams and shaping engineering strategy, delivery and frontend innovation. Sandro is a practical coach who prioritizes nurturing individual strengths to create motivated, high-performing teams and to drive experimentation. His open-source work includes Android contributions such as an Android port of OpenALPR and enhancements to the Android Vulnerability Test Suite, reflecting a deep mobile security and computer vision interest. Based in Braga, Portugal, he blends academic roots in mobile and ubiquitous computing with a continuous appetite for new technologies.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics Engineer, Mobile and ubiquitous computing, Informatics Engineer, Mobile and ubiquitous computing at University of Minho
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (28)
opencv10
mobile-development10
react-native10
ui-design10
android-development10
java10
javas10
jna10
android10
tess4j9
ios9
ocr9
tesseract9
tesseractjs9
android-studio9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SandroMachado/openalpr-android
Dec 2015 - Jun 2020
Android Automatic License Plate Recognition library (http://www.openalpr.com) ported for android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 releases, 42 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sandro focused on developing and improving the Android application related to Automatic License Plate Recognition. Their contributions include setting up the initial project structure, fixing compilation issues, integrating necessary JNI libraries (OpenCV, Tesseract, etc.), addressing application crashes, preventing null pointer exceptions, updating the data model, and improving the demo application's display of processing time. They also updated the libpng library used by the project.
http-librarylicense-plateplateplate-recognitionrecognition
AndroidVTS/android-vts
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Android Vulnerability Test Suite - In the spirit of open data collection, and with the help of the community, let's take a pulse on the state of Android security. NowSecure presents an on-device app to test for recent device vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:24 commits, 15 PRs, 30 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sandro focused on improving the Android Vulnerability Test Suite application's user interface and functionality. Their contributions included updating the UI with Material Design elements, enhancing the scan experience, and implementing a scan resume dialog to improve user experience. The user also refactored the application to include new features such as intro slides and a check for updates action.
spiriton-devicevulnerabilitiessecurityandroid
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