Pedro Costa

Hi! I’m Pedro.

I’m a 23-year-old engineer, interested in distributed systems, architecting scalable systems, developing micro-services and serverless applications and keen on web development. I enjoy working in teams and manage processes.

I’m in my last year of my Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering at FEUP, Porto, Portugal. Currently I’m working on my Master Thesis.

Last summer, 2018, I did an internship at AWS (Amazon Web Services), in Madrid, as a Solution Architect.

I sometimes post stuff on Medium, and I also keep track of the books I read.

Don’t forget to check my list of recommended NOP (Not-Only-Papers).

You can always drop me a line at me@pedrocosta.eu

Professional Experience

Back-end Developer (Elixir), Part-time & Remote @ Bitmaker Software | September - December 2018
Technical Researcher (Solutions Architect) @ Amazon Web Services - Summer Internship | June - September 2018
Teaching Assistant @ Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto | September - December 2017
Software Developer @ Bitmaker Software - Summer Internship | June - August 2017

Education

Integrated Master’s in Informatics and Computing Engineering @ Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP)
- Erasmus at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
- Master Thesis on Trustable Blockchain Oracles

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of the Board of Regents @ Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP) | 2017 - 2019
Member of NIAEFEUP (FEUP’s Informatics Club) | 2016 - 2019
- Treasurer | 2017-2018
Treasurer @ Informatics Students National Conference | 2016 - 2018
Alumni @ European Youth Parliament | 2013 – 2015
- International sessions: Tbilisi 2013, Barcelona 2014

Medium Posts

Talks

Thinking Serverless - Slides
Building a Serverless app on AWS - Workshop developed for FEUP students at “Semana de Informática” conference on the 1st of November 2018 by Pedro Costa.

Side projects

Serverless URL Shortener, Serverless url shortener using AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. Currently deployed on this website.
On the Go, Text notes converted to audio so you can listen wherever you are. Completly serverless app, fully hosted (including CI/CD) on AWS.
Randomizer, App for true random groups/orders by alerting each person by e-mail of the random selection. Serverless app (React + AWS Lambda). Developed with Bernardo Belchior.

Academic projects

Predicting the arrival delay of commercial flights, 2018, Spark application written in scala and using several machine learning techniques to create a feasible model. Medium post about the project.
Distributed Messaging App, 2017, Java messaging app using a distributed hash table and multiple servers for load balancing and replication of messages and files.
Neural network to rate facial expressions, 2017, Using ConvNetJS and javascript to train a neural network for Grammatical Facial Expressions (GFEs) used in the Brazilian Sign Language. Live at: nn.pedrocosta.eu