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Open LinkedInData scientist in Lisbon; previously ERP consultant and mining engineer. The work history is here because the earlier jobs explain the later ones.
I started as a mining engineer in the Philippines, writing production reports for an underground copper-gold mine. From there I moved to implementing ERP systems, co-founded a consultancy in Australia that did the same, and then built websites on my own. The part of each job I kept returning to was the data.
I moved to Lisbon for a master's in data science at NOVA IMS and wrote a thesis on triaging bug reports with self-organising maps. I stayed on to teach the practical classes for Data Mining for four years, and spent three of them on a PhD proposal about using LLM agents to evaluate automatically generated taxonomies. I left in 2026, after the proposal stage, to work in industry full-time. The course materials are still public.
Today I work as a data scientist at DareData: they bring the projects, and I build the data products end to end as part of their team. I write the documentation as I go and review code in detail, because a data product is only as useful as the next person's ability to change it.
| Years | Role | Organisation | What it involved |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026–now | Freelance data scientist | DareData · Lisbon | DareData brings the clients; I deliver as part of their team. Full-stack data products for industrial clients: data model, API, front end, test suite. |
| 2023–2026 | PhD research, Information Management | NOVA IMS | Proposal on using LLM agents to evaluate automatically generated taxonomies. Left after the proposal stage to work in industry full-time. |
| 2022–2025 | Adjunct lecturer | NOVA IMS | Practical sessions for Data Mining, Data-Driven Decision Making and Foundational Aspects of Information. |
| 2021–2022 | Web developer | Freelance · Australia | Custom sites on open-source stacks: Jamstack, TypeScript, headless CMS. |
| 2017–2021 | Co-founder & functional consultant | Dayap Logic · Australia | IT consultancy delivering ERP implementations. Ran the company, scoped client needs, wrote proposals and training material, built in Python and SQL. |
| 2014–2015 | Technical consultant | Toolkt · Philippines | Odoo ERP end to end: proposals, custom Python modules, SQL reporting, training and support. |
| 2011–2013 | Junior mining engineer | Lepanto Consolidated Mining · Philippines | Production, equipment and budget reporting for an underground copper-gold mine. |
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