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António Almeida

Software Engineer,
Handball Player,
Enumerator of things.

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About Me

tl;dr

  • Software Engineer at Klarna focused on building great building blocks for banking products.
  • I play professional handball in Belgium’s top division.
  • From Portugal, based in Brussels
  • Music, Automation and ML enthusiast

Experience

Klarna

Senior Software Engineer
May 2023 - Present
I said “it depends” enough times to become Senior Engineer.

Klarna

Software Engineer
October 2020 - May 2023
Focusing on building great building blocks for banking products.

LTPLabs

Data Scientist
February 2020 - July 2020
Part of team developing a predictive analytics system for Portugal’s biggest food retailer. Applied state-of-the art ML models for price sales forecasting and developed a novel methodology for price elasticity prediction. Wrote my MSc thesis based on my contribution.

INESC-TEC

Software Engineer
January 2019 - August 2019
Received a research grant through which I joined Project MELOA’s team, where I designed and developed a data stream processing application to authenticate, deliver, and load balance requests sent from IoT devices.

University of Porto

Teaching Assistant
September 2017 - December 2018
Invited to assist in teaching classes on Low-Level Device Drivers, and Computer Graphics. As a Teaching Assistant, led practical classes, graded assignments, and guided students in the development of their practical projects.

Education

September 2015 - July 2020

University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering

BSc + MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering
Average: 18 (top 3%)
September 2019 - January 2020

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Semester abroad as part of the Erasmus program.
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