Simão Reis
Research Scientist Senior Software Engineer at VORTEX-CoLab
Aveiro, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolSimão Reis is a Research Scientist and Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience bridging applied AI/ML research and production-grade software engineering. Holding a PhD in Computer Science and a Master’s in Cyber Security, he has applied deep reinforcement learning to adaptive serious games and led experiments with real users, while also contributing to observability-focused open source (notably infrastructure, CI/CD and Grafana work on opstrace). Based in Aveiro, Portugal, he teaches low-level C, Python, and systems programming at the University of Porto and mentors student projects in game development and AI. Simão combines hands-on full‑stack and DevOps skills with a strong research background, often translating novel algorithms into deployable systems and reproducible user studies.
11 years of coding experience
Ph.D., MAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science, Approved Unanimously, Ph.D., MAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science, Approved Unanimously at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoIntegrated M.Sc. in Computer and Telematics Engineering, 16, Integrated M.Sc. in Computer and Telematics Engineering, 16 at Universidade de Aveiro
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
docker10
observability10
dockers10
terraform10
gcp10
terraformer10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
cortex-a9
cortex9
grafana9
cloki9
go9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
opstrace/opstrace
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
The Open Source Observability Distribution
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:108 reviews, 375 commits, 248 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Simão made several contributions to the `opstrace/opstrace` repository, focusing on enhancing infrastructure and applying updates to the codebase. They worked on implementing updates to the CI/CD pipeline, including ensuring correct artifact deployment, and improved test coverage. The user also worked on updating and configuring several Grafana dashboards, along with incorporating changes to improve the usability of the UI. Additionally, the user was involved in enhancing the documentation and managing the overall deployment process.
tracingobservabilitymetricsmonitoringlogs
opstrace/cortex-operator
May 2021 - Oct 2021
The cortex-operator is a project to manage the lifecycle of Cortex in Kubernetes.
Contributions:70 commits, 26 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 months
cortexlifecycleoperatorkuberneteskubernetes-operator
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