João Borlido

Developed a Claude agent in Python that triages email, tracks funding calls, maintains task sheets, answers knowledge base queries, and sends daily briefings. Includes conversation memory and cost-aware triggers.

Built an agent that prepares online purchases on real shop websites, checking budgets, filling carts via browser automation, and recording orders in a Google Sheets ledger without ever paying.

Design, build, and run the cooperative's production AI systems and data products on a custom agent framework, ensuring human approval for all external actions.

Lead engineering and applied research at an AI-first retail startup, managing a four-person R&D team and a Portugal 2030 R&D project with INESC TEC. Oversee the core platform, on-device inference, and autonomous AI agents for team operations.

Founded the first Portuguese tech cooperative, serving as president and overseeing its role as a co-working space and technology incubator.

Led the design and build of an end-to-end stack for a six-buoy sensor network, including a Python sensor hub, FastAPI API, and React dashboard. Managed a 24-hour real-water deployment in the Lima estuary.

Worked on CryptoFights: Ascension, a server-authoritative multiplayer game, owning serverless backend integration, combat and matchmaking systems, and CI/CD pipelines.

Led the Unity and Python backend team for an AR app that uses MediaPipe pose tracking for avatar animation.

Developed an AR mobile app gamifying recycling using ARKit and ARCore.

Co-founded a studio and shipped an FPS game to Steam.

Pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Engineering, with an expected completion in the near future.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Graphics and Multimedia Engineering.