Hugo Peixoto

Work experience

• Freelance software developer since 2020
  • Built a website in Fresh/Typescript that displays a database of bilateral state agreements;
  • Upgraded the dependencies and runtimes of Ruby on Rails, nodejs, and React applications;
  • Reviewed Rust code, mainly looking for security vulnerabilities;
  • Developed a Payment Initiation Service Provider bridging system in Ruby on Rails.
• Pro bono Software developer and Sysadmin at Cyberscore.me.uk since 2020
  • Debugged database and page load performance issues;
  • Open-sourced the codebase after auditing and fixing security vulnerabilities;
  • Built a browser-based image recognition tool in Rust compiled to WebAssembly;
  • Modernized the code to use routes, non-PHP templates, and database migrations.
• Chief Technical Officer at Trust Fractal GmbH from 2019 to 2020
  • Led the technical decisions of a team of 9 working on a digital identity solution;
  • Worked with the Legal Engineering and Product teams to expand to other market segments.
• Principal of Engineering at Trust Fractal GmbH from 2018 to 2019
  • Led a team of 5 through the initial implementation of a digital identity solution for crypto fundraising events, with particular attention to data security and high peaks of traffic;
  • Tutored 8 interns over the course of two summers.
• Managing partner and Software developer at Life on Mars from 2016 to 2018
  • Co-founded a small software agency of seven, with a focus on openness;
  • Built a HIPAA-compliant application using Ruby on Rails, Terraform, and SaltStack;
  • Provided incident support, solving emergency situations for infrastructure problems;
  • Wrote a paper about provably fair random number generation;
  • Developed a set of automated hiring interview problems.
• Software developer at NDrive Navigation Systems from 2010 to 2016
  • Joined the team rewriting the core system of their main product;
  • Designed the pipeline that turns multi-gigabyte SQL databases of geographical information into 100 megabytes files, working with Python, SQL and C++;
  • Built an online licensing API mechanism using Ruby on Rails, Go, and C++;
  • Managed the server infrastructure using SaltStack, Chef, and Ansible.
• Software developer (Internship) Fraunhofer AICOS from February to July 2010
  I studied, implemented (in C++) and compared several algorithms for the vehicle routing problem applied to waste collection vehicles routing. This research ultimately led to my master's thesis.
• Software developer at Bolos Quentes during May 2010
  Implemented a game about recycling and the environment using Flash and ActionScript 3.
• Software developer at Laboratório de Instrumentação para Medição da FEUP from 2007 to 2010
  Developed a haptic-feedback enabled app to remotely control a motor, using C++, Qt and OpenGL.
• Undergraduate teaching assistant at FEUP from February to June 2009
  Helped Computer Graphics students with C++, Java and OpenGL, with special focus on lighting, texture mapping, shading and transformations.
• Software developer at Entidade Reguladora da Saúde during the summer of 2007
  Wrote SQL queries for a module that generates reports on complaints for all portuguese healthcare entities. This web application was written in ASP.NET and MSSQL.
• Web developer at Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto from 2007 to 2008

  In a team of three, I planned and developed a social web platform for the publication of architectural projects. We used Flash, XML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and Python.
• Algorithms and Data Structures private tutor during the Summer of 2006
  I helped two graduation finalists with their studies for the final exam on the algorithms and data structures course. Both succeeded with good grades.