About me

My name’s Alexandre Rodrigues and I’m from Porto, Portugal where I was born in October 1988.

I have expressed my interest in computing and computer science when I got my first computer, at age of 14. Since then I’ve been learning various technologies on my own, having been through a bit of everything from assembly in which I used to control a small robot that participated in the 2006 UA‘s Micro-Rato challenge, .NET and other more complex systems such as high-level integration and orchestration of services.

I use Unix since the end of my 10th grade and since a few years ago I use most of the time scripting languages to get the job done – Python and Ruby. A few weeks ago I started to play a little with audio/video codecs.

At a professional level, I’ve co-founded the CoreSP, in 2005, a Web hosting company and Internet services, where I occupied my duties until my 2nd grade at FEUP. I also performed various jobs as a freelancer, mostly web projects. Also became a full member at JuniFEUP, Junior Enterprise of FEUP, where I had the opportunity to have a straight contact with an organization environment. I also acquired other skills in team and quality management.
A year ago I’ve joined EpDAH – Engineering for Development and Humanitarian Assistance, a voluntary non-profit NGO created with the support of the Order of Engineers, to conduct projects that aim to fight miserable conditions and meet basic needs in third world countries.

I’m interested in learning new things and developing innovative solutions.