Summary
Sergio Santos is a Senior Research Engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance, distributed systems and scientific software that bridge R&D and production. He holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry and an Engineer's degree in Computer Science, and has led research groups developing open-source tools like ProtoSyn.jl for GPU-accelerated, distributed quantum-chemistry workflows. His background spans low-level C/C++ performance engineering, Python bindings, and scalable cloud benchmarking, applied to domains from NMR crystallography and protein design to workforce-scheduling algorithms. Sergio has moved between academia and industry—heading scientific computing at Inductiva.AI and contributing algorithmic features at Talkdesk—bringing rigorous research practices to product-focused engineering. Colleagues value his ability to prototype novel computational methods and take them to production-grade systems with attention to performance and reproducibility.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Science, Engineer's degree Computer Science at Universidade de Aveiro