• 12 years of experience as a software defined radio (SDR) and digital signal processing (DSP) specialist in space and homeland security.
• 30 years of experience in software and computer systems: developer, Q&A team leader, architect, director and professor. Expertise in optimization, C/C++, assembly, multi-threading and networking.
• 9 years of experience managing software development teams of up to 15 engineers.
• Passionate, curious and pragmatic. My strategic plan is called "doing things."
• International experience working across three continents.
• Skilled in maximizing team performance and achieving more with limited resources.
• Calm and composed under pressure, even in high-stress situations.
• Empathetic with strong communication and mentoring skills.
• Foremost, I always prioritize the interests of my employer above all else.

• Designed and implemented the current industry state-of-the-art FPGA-based ADS-B demodulator for LEO satellites, capturing 20M messages/day/satellite, doubling the performance of the previous version.
• Designed and implemented a DVB-S2 CPU-based demodulator with < 0.3 dB implementation loss. Achieved frequency lock within 2 frames at 0 dB SNR using a novel "vernier" method for frequency acquisition, and an innovative Kalman filter for frequency and phase tracking.
• Implemented and demonstrated a machine learning DSP algorithm running on an onboard GPU.
• Implemented a state-of-the-art AIS demodulator that collected 1M messages/day/satellite and propelled the success of Spire's maritime operations.

• Led the SDR and signal processing domain at the company's product office, contributing to multiple homeland security projects, focused on RF signal detection, analysis, direction finding and geolocation.
• Developed from scratch a highly optimized software system for digital down conversion using the Intel AVX2 assembly instructions. Achieved performance exceeding that of FPGA implementations, running on a general-purpose CPUs ten times less expensive.
• Engineered a complete solution for detecting frequency hopping and OFDM signals below the noise floor, operating on low-cost COTS hardware.
• Built a real-time direction-finding system capable of processing 300M IQ samples per second on a COTS multicore Intel CPU.
• Architected the software platform for sensor aggregation, analysis and user interface. Currently integrating more than 12 subsystems including radars, video analytics, RF signal detectors, RF direction finders, acoustics and more.
• Conceived and directed the development of a GPU-based signal detection system leveraging machine learning techniques.
• These innovations contributed to the establishment of a new multimillion-dollar product line within my division.

Taught the course “Computer System Engineering,” a senior course on distributed systems. Part-time job, simultaneous to my duties with Agnitio.

• Responsible for the software architecture of the products, the technology and methodology strategy, development planning, and delivery quality.
• Liaised with the research team, I had the opportunity to interact with some of the world's top scientists in speech processing. My duty was to coordinate the construction of high performing biometric engines from their Matlab prototypes and PoC.
• Unified products into an integrated architecture founded on C++ and Java. Established a continuous integration system and metrics dashboard.
• Imbued a value-driven culture, based on incremental deliveries. Recovered the confidence of the company in the team and its motivation.
• Created new product lines targeting from mobile platforms to server farms. Obsessed with performance optimization, we met consistently the company roadmap deadlines.
• Appraised and managed external contractors. Worked with final customers, providing technical communication and training.

• Responsible for the Vega tool, a key component of the framework. It's a graphical model-driven tool used to define business and presentation processes. Based on Eclipse, composed of +5,000 Java classes. It produced J2EE artifacts (EJBs, Java code, web applications) and messaging standard descriptors (WSDL, XSD) following the designed processes.
• Prepared Vega’s yearly product plan and made it happen. Defined the long-term evolution of the tool.
• Counted with a team of 13 developers and architects. I was able to help them develop their professional careers in the company.
• One key success factor was the development of healthy relationships with the support team and final users.

• Assigned to improve the quality of Banksphere, elaborated standards to guide the design and implementation of this platform.
• Prepared an audit for Isban’s higher management regarding the applications development cycle and suggestions for improvement.

• Defined the architecture and technology platform for the web applications at the TTU System. Reviewed and validated the design of every application. Defined and selected standards, technologies, and tools common to the department.
• Facing a critical performance problem on the university’s web portal, after a month of work, we had multiplied its throughput by five. Among other issues we identified concurrency bugs in some Apache components and contributed with its resolution to the maintainers.
• Participated in the selection and deployment of the university’s SSO (single-sign on) technology.

• Took part in the complete life-cycle of several web applications for the campus community: negotiation, requirements gathering, analysis, design, data modelling, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance.
• Some of the technologies/languages I employed were: XML/XSLT, J2EE, .NET, PHP, and Perl. As databases I used Oracle, DB2, and SQLServer.
• Developed the first successful campus web application based on Java/Struts, becoming the reference architecture.

Re-engineered an undocumented +200,000 COBOL application that forecasted class demand into a Java/ASP functional equivalent.

• Started a new team inside the Q&A department challenged with the automation of repetitive testing tasks and systematic stress testing.
• Managed a team of 8 developers, none of which resigned during this period (the company’s annual personnel turnover was over 30%).
• Progressed from an all-manual testing scenario to more than 60% of the testing performed automatically. Besides, the team came up with several highly innovative testing tools. Together we achieved a significant cultural change in the company.

• Participated in the design of the company’s next generation of products, hand in hand with the company CTO.
• Designed and implemented the data access interfaces for our proprietary core middleware. Designed multiple APIs. Multi-threading programming, scalability, performance, multi-platform compatibility (Solaris, AIX, HP, and Windows NT), and database independence (Oracle, SQLServer, Informix, Sybase, etc.) were key features.

Participated in the design and implementation of the first MVC application in the company. The architecture was a success and had a strong influence over the next generation of products.

Together with a colleague designed and implemented from scratch a C++ software suite of interactive graphical tools for the simulation of arbitrary physical and control processes, modeled as a system of differential equations.

Supported my college education repairing electric appliances during summer breaks.