F. Arruda Pontes
Felipe is a researcher at the Institute of Data Science at the Maastricht University (UM) with a strong software engineering background, specialising in ecologically sustainable distributed computing, stream processing, uncertainty awareness, and computer vision. He is also a PhD candidate at the Insight Centre, Data Science Institute, University of Galway in Ireland, where he also obtained his Master's (by research) degree in 2021.
Before this, he worked for many years as a senior software engineer in multiple companies worldwide, participating in projects ranging from online solutions for oil and gas exploration to large-scale distributed online marketplace systems over the Cloud. He has been a presenter and coach at multiple conferences, a volunteer at social activities on development technologies, and a contributor and maintainer of many projects in the Open-Source community.