Hugo Ferreira
Principal Research Engineer at INESC Technology and Science - Associate Laboratory
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugo Ferreira is a Principal Research Engineer at Arm and a tenured professor (on leave) with over 15 years of experience bridging academia and industry across systems, ML, AdTech and FinTech. He has led engineering teams as CTO and interim-CTO, co-founded a startup with a successful exit, and driven product and architectural modernization at scale in companies like Funding Circle and Ocado Technology. His research has produced 70+ publications, over 1,100 citations (h-index 22), and supervision of 70+ theses, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems, IoT, software architecture and program repair. Practically minded, he combines Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architectures and observability to improve reliability and business outcomes—e.g., contributing to a 3x revenue increase in US originations. He frequently oscillates between high-stakes R&D (including NATO-grade interoperability early in his career) and hands-on engineering, making him effective at turning research into production-grade systems. Based in London, he blends curiosity-driven scholarship with a track record of delivering measurable impact across startups, industry and government projects.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoTecnician Computers, Tecnician Computers at Escola Secundaria Fontes Pereira de Melo
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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87questions
expression-trees
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Github Skills (91)
javascript10
utilities10
lodash10
pipes-and-filters9
parser-api9
literate9
expression-trees9
parser-framework9
ebnf9
typesafe9
discrete-event-simulation8
jetbrains8
parser8
lexer8
jekyll8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hugoferreira/hugoferreira.github.com
Sep 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:139 commits, 234 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
hugoferreira/golf-during-covid
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Code Golfing during COVID
Contributions:63 commits, 39 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 month
golfingpython
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