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Nuno Aniceto

Tech Lead, Staff Engineer

Tech Lead & Team Lead leveraging over 11 years of experience on high-throughput enterprise distributed systems. Specialist in Java Spring microservices, leveraging AI. Diligent, effective, resourceful.

Technical Core Competencies

Architectural Leadership, Distributed Systems, AI SDLC & Infrastructure

Distributed Systems & Data
Event-Driven Architectures Microservices ETL Oracle DB PostgreSQL MongoDB
AI & Agentic Systems
Agentic SDLC Computer Vision Deep Learning AI Algorithms
Languages & Frameworks
Java & Spring Python REST-API SQL Multi-threading Transactions
Cloud & Infrastructure
Docker Kubernetes DevOps Linux Git CI/CD Scripting

Professional Career & Experience

Interactive Timeline of Engineering Leadership, Projects, and Education

11/2024 - Present Current Role

Software Engineer & AI Champion

Shield Financial Compliance

Lisbon, Portugal
  • Optimization of core backend containerization, slashing image footprint by 50%, accelerating deployment pipeline speed, cutting ECR storage overhead, and improving security posture.
  • Optimized data-source queries and flows; resolved blocker & non-reproducible production issues; implemented several features, including multi-threaded flows (shared context and isolated contexts).
  • Appointed as Learning Champion and AI Champion.
  • Pioneered R&D AI initiatives as an AI Champion, architecting containerized agentic PR/MR reviewers and automated HLD/LLD generation pipelines based on templates and smart-question oriented trade-off analysis flow to significantly accelerate R&D SDLC velocity.
  • Designed and implemented the first R&D group groundcover dashboards.
Java Spring Python Docker Kubernetes AI Agents Groundcover
11/2020 - 10/2024

Tech Lead // Interim Team Lead (2023)

CARDIF - BNP PARIBAS Insurance Group (Askblue consultant)

Lisbon, Portugal
  • Spearheaded the group flagship EDMS project transformation to the hybrid cloud, from IaaS to the IBM PaaS; refactoring the application & engineering fast2 ETL software and plugins to seamlessly migrate ~7M client documents and metadata from legacy systems, and from Canon Therefore application.
  • Optimized the application for UX: stability and performance achieving 200% faster responses on user flows on average.
  • Project stepping successes led to achieve five new countries and a new continent: LATAM.
  • Planned the roadmap with PO for ~2 years optimizing priority and team capacity.
Java Spring IBM PaaS Fast2 ETL Oracle DB Hybrid Cloud
07/2019 - 10/2020

Technology Consultant in Financial Services // Staff Engineer

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Lisbon, Portugal
  • Led Deloitte first technological project on this tier-1 bank in Portugal: a payments portal.
  • The project lifecycle from start to exposure on public internet production took 8 months.
  • Aligned efforts with distinct functional and technical teams to align and resolve the needed changes on several bank systems, transactions and services.
  • Gave support on internal and bank certifications and approvals of the project: architecture design and review, cyber-security review, support to penetration testing.
  • Boutique solution developed and deployed in Portugal, afterwards spread to several countries including: UK, Poland, Spain.
Java Microservices Payments Gateway Cybersecurity Pen-testing
09/2015 - 06/2019

Analyst // Computer Vision SW Engineer

Accenture

Lisbon, Portugal
  • Computer Vision (AI) Engineer: maintenance of CV algorithms; design and implementation of new flows and features.
  • As Full-Stack SWE: Developed new features on the core of a tolling project charging M transactions/day.
  • Deployment and integration of containerized applications for team usage: Phabricator, Nexus, Jenkins, OpenLDAP.
  • Rollout-Release flows design and implementation: supporting multi-nodes via SSH, backups (SFTP), locks, auto-rollbacks.
Computer Vision C++ Python Docker Jenkins Phabricator
09/2014 - 12/2015

Full-Stack Developer

CEGIST - Center for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico

Oeiras, Portugal
  • Client tailored, internal system for publishing and maintenance of: scientific articles, production projects, and researchers.
  • ETL migration from non-normalized / 0NF database to snowflake schema database (3NF).
  • Implementation of the entire UI and the underlying backend services.
Python Django PostgreSQL ETL 3NF Database
09/2018 - 06/2019

Teacher for Python Software Development

Colégio São José do Ramalhão

Sintra, Portugal

Taught Python programming and software engineering principles to students.

Python Teaching Education
01/2021

Strategic Management Certificate

Copenhagen Business School (via Coursera)

Online / Coursera

Specialized certificate in strategic management, business planning, and organizational strategy.

Strategic Management Leadership
11/2018

Data Engineering on GCP Certificate

Google Cloud (via Coursera)

Online / Coursera

Certified expertise in building data processing pipelines, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Infrastructure.

Google Cloud Platform BigQuery Data Pipelines
08/2018

Deep Learning Certificate

DeepLearning.ai (via Coursera)

Online / Coursera

Specialist certification in Neural Networks, Deep Learning architectures, and Computer Vision algorithms.

Deep Learning Neural Networks Computer Vision
07/2013

LxMLS'13 - Learning with Big Data

Lisbon Machine Learning School

Lisbon, Portugal

Intensive summer school on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Big Data algorithms.

Machine Learning NLP Big Data
09/2012 - 11/2016

MSc in Computer Science and Engineering

Technical University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico

Lisbon, Portugal

Specialization in Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence Systems.

Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Distributed Systems
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11/2024 - Present

Software Engineer & AI Champion

Shield Financial Compliance

Java Spring Python
11/2020 - 10/2024

Tech Lead // Interim Team Lead (2023)

CARDIF - BNP PARIBAS Insurance Group (Askblue consultant)

Java Spring IBM
07/2019 - 10/2020

Technology Consultant in Financial Services // Staff Engineer

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Java Microservices Payments
09/2015 - 06/2019

Analyst // Computer Vision SW Engineer

Accenture

Computer Vision C++
09/2014 - 12/2015

Full-Stack Developer

CEGIST - Center for Management Studies of Instituto Superior Técnico

Python Django PostgreSQL
09/2018 - 06/2019

Teacher for Python Software Development

Colégio São José do Ramalhão

Python Teaching Education
01/2021

Strategic Management Certificate

Copenhagen Business School (via Coursera)

Strategic Management Leadership
11/2018

Data Engineering on GCP Certificate

Google Cloud (via Coursera)

Google Cloud Platform
08/2018

Deep Learning Certificate

DeepLearning.ai (via Coursera)

Deep Learning Neural
07/2013

LxMLS'13 - Learning with Big Data

Lisbon Machine Learning School

Machine Learning NLP
09/2012 - 11/2016

MSc in Computer Science and Engineering

Technical University of Lisbon - Instituto Superior Técnico

Artificial Intelligence Computer