About Me

The bio from my GitHub profile is still fairly accurate:

Dad, Husband, Computer Science PhD, Senior Software Engineer, FX Derivatives geek, Angolan-Portuguese.

I've spent a quarter of a century programming professionally, almost all of which in the United Kingdom — though I did do a couple of quick escapades to Angola and Portugal. My main focus over the last twenty or so years has been the financial sector — the FX derivatives market in particular. I am currently gainfully employed and therefore not looking for opportunities.

I did a PhD thesis which may (or may not) be of interest: Model Assisted Software Development — a MDE-Based Software Development Methodology. As part of that work, I wrote a few papers:

• Survey of Special Purpose Code Generators
• Experience Report of Industrial Adoption of Model Driven Development in the Financial Sector
• Notes on Model Driven Engineering

In my spare time I used to work on this topic over at the MASD Project, but these days I am more likely to be found at ORE Studio playing around with LLMs and Computational Finance. My almae matres are: University of Hertfordshire (PhD, MsC) and Universidade do Algarve - Escola Superior de Gestão, Hotelaria e Turismo (ESGHT) (BSc).

After working for over two decades for Natwest Markets — as both a contractor, and a permie, and a contractor a few times, and a permie to finish off — I am now no longer in the City of London. It has been a very big change for me, since I worked in the city for roughly 25 years of my life, or just about half of it so far. I do try to keep my hands busy with Quantitative Finance in my spare time via ORE Studio. I otherwise work as a remote Senior Software Engineer.

My mother tongue is Portuguese, but I speak English fluently enough (though my kids may tell you otherwise). I can survive in Spanish and, if really pushed, rather badly in French. My favourite expression, which I heard our Congolese neighbours say a lot is Je me débrouille.