Gonçalo Carito
Data lover & passionate soft-skills trainer
B-Skype: goncalocarito
Portuguese
Academic background
MSc on Telecommunications and Informatics Eng. - Major in Mobile, Distributed &
Cloud Applications,
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa (UL), concluded December 2015.
{ Web Data Extraction and Analysis, Speech Processing
{ Cloud Computing, Distributed Applications
{ Positioning Satellite Systems
{ Networks Security, Implementation of Security Systems, Computer Forensics
BSc on Computer Networks Engineering, IST, UL, concluded June 2013.
{ Mathematics, Signal Processing, Operating Systems, Databases, Programming, Networks
Architecture and Management
Work experience-
Interfaces Portugal, interfaces.pt.
Lead Data Science Engineer
Infrastructure architecture with microservices using Docker and orchestration with Docker Swarm
supporting scalability and load balancing.
Exploratory Analysis and Processing of transport (road, boat and rail; revenues, ticketing and costumers) data in order to transform it in relevant KPIs to be shown through Data Visualization using
Python Pandas and Tableau .
Normalization of an Oracle database using Java .
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Freelancer.
Data Science Engineer | Trainer and Facilitator
Development of a simple web app with Javascript frameworks: React.js, Node.js and Hapi.js to collect
user data and store it on a MongoDB .
Experiences with design of soft-skills training sessions including data collection of Needs Assessment
and further correlation with training outputs for better Impact Measurement.
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Clickly, clickly.co.
Data Scientist
Big data infrastructure with Amazon Web Services and processing using Hadoop technologies as
Spark : PySpark, SparkSql and Spark Streaming on Amazon EMR. Storage in a graph database
( OrientDB ) and Key-Value ( DynamoDB ).
Development of a Recommendation System for ads placement: content-related (use of Natural Language
Processing for language recognition, sentimental analysis, and named entity recognition) and personal
(use of visitors analytics to retrieve the most popular pages and content for a user) with HBase and
Elasticsearch .
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INESC-ID, Spoken Language Systems Lab - l2f.
Researcher: Privacy Enhanced Voice Recognition
Development and implementation of a new privacy-preserving speech recognition solution with Hidden
Markov Models, using HTK , Matlab and Python . Privacy protocol used: Garbled Circuits .
Other software skills
{ Programming: C and C#
{ Web: HTML, CSS
{ Databases: MySQL and PostgreSQL
{ Operating systems: Experience with Unix/Linux, Windows and Mac.
{ Computer networks: Routing protocols and network programming
{ Video and image edition: Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator, Final Cut Pro
Some other interests
Cryptography, Blockchain, Gamification, Non-formal Education, Mobility, Healthcare.
Languages
Portuguese Native
English Fluent
Mother Tongue
Daily practice, most of the work performed in English
Accomplishments
{ IEEE Darrel Chong Bronze 2014 for the excellent organisation of IFISO Autumn Meeting
{ Competent Communicator & Advanced Leadership Bronze @ Toastmasters Int.
{ Outstanding member @ Toastmasters Int. for the excellent organisation of Spring Conference
Skills & Training
Youth Trainer Certified by Zero Generation, delivered more than 40 hours of trainings in organisations across
Europe in different subjects, like:
{ Leadership
{ Communication
{ Team Building
{ Conflict Management
{ Motivation
{ Group Dynamics
{ Facilitation
{ Emotional Intelligence
Events Organisation of more than 15 events from small to bigger ones (200 guests).
Negotiation Leverage of new partnerships in IFISO and IEEE Academic.
Public Speaking Technical Presentations and Storytelling (Toastmasters Int.).
Organisational Creation and rebuilding of student groups (IEEE and EESTEC), development of bylaws and
document archive system (IEEE-IST), generation of availabilities tracking system, knowledge
transfer documentation and hand over (IEEE Academic).
Finances Maximisation of Toastmasters Club revenues after a big investment in a conference.
Volunteer Work
IEEE: the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology-
Secretary, Vice-Chair for Technical Activities, TV Coordinator, IEEE IST Student Branch.
Secretary, IEEE Portugal Section.
Portugal Ambassador 2013, Contests & Partnerships Coordinator 2014-, IEEE Academic.
EESTEC: engineering student organisation with workshops and exchanges along the year-
Vice-Chair for Human Resources, Oversight Committee, EESTEC LC Lisbon.
IFISO: Informal Forum of International Students Organizations
2013
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External Relations, IFISO Management Team.
Toastmasters: International organisation for leadership and communication-
Treasurer, President and Founder, Taguspark (Speakers) Club.
Hobbies
Traveling
Sports
Writing
Hacking
I love to backpack and travel around Europe to meet friends.
Basketball (I played in my home-town team as young), Football with friends, Running.
I write poetry and small tales in my free time.
I like to hack stuff at home, from electronics to software.
