Tiago Almeida is a software engineer and Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering with 10 years of experience building end-to-end systems that span neural information retrieval, biomedical question answering, and production-grade full-stack applications. He led the creation of a high-throughput computational cluster at IEETA that delivered over 152,000 CPU hours in its first month and has helped win BioASQ challenges five years running, demonstrating both research impact and competitive excellence. Comfortable across frontend (React, Flet), backend (FastAPI, Flask, Django) and infrastructure, he has shipped open-source tools like BioNExt and SPARe and a clinical notes assistant now in hospital validation. An invited professor and former teaching assistant, he blends rigorous academic research with practical delivery, often translating state-of-the-art models into usable products.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics Engineering at Universidade de Aveiro
Contributions:4 releases, 212 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
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