I’m Dinis Peixoto, a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Checkout.com based in Portugal. 🇵🇹

I consider myself an eager to learn person, always with a learn-by-doing philosophy in mind. I really like to feel challenged as it enables me to learn new things and improve my problem-solving skills.

I truly believe that teaching is one of the best ways to learn, that’s why I’m currently mentoring python and csharp at exercism.io, after several years of teaching computer science-related subjects to young people at Coderdojo.

The challenges that come with designing, building, and scaling machine learning systems is something that fascinates me. I’m deeply involved in the whole machine learning development lifecycle, especially when it comes to ensuring systems have MLOps best practices in mind.

Last but not least, I’m a formula 1 🏎 and skateboarding 🛹 enthusiast, who loves going to the gym every weekday 🏋️‍♂️.

 

Giving a talk at SEI, University of Minho 2022

💻 Projects

• Brand Recommendations - machine learning model that provides the Top N recommendations for brands available on well-known e-commerce marketplace, also includes a training and deployment pipeline using Github Actions and Azure ML.

• Invoice scanner - system that uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to extract data from invoice photos (products bought, supermarket, prices, etc), which is then displayed in a dashboard.

• Kaydara - personal assistant for Facebook Messenger with features such as setting reminders, weather forecast, trending news, sending e-mails and checking the calendar.

• Bitbar plugins - self-made bitbar plugins that I usually use for the Mac menu bar

  • 🎧 song that is playing on spotify
  • 🌡 fan speed and cpu temperature
  • 📈 stock prices

📚 Books

List of books that I’ve read or am still reading:

• Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track currently reading

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications currently reading

• Designing Machine Learning Systems

• Machine Learning Engineering

• System Design Interview – An Insider’s Guide

• Sapiens: A brief history of humankind

• How to win friends and influence people

• Atomic Habits

• Your Money or Your Life

• Broke Millennial

• Clean Architecture

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad

• The One Minute Manager

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

• The Master Algorithm

👨‍💻 Experience

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Checkout.com (Sep 2022 → *)

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ FARFETCH (Sep 2018 → Sep 2022)

• Organizer and Mentor @ Coderdojo Braga (Jan 2015 → Sep 2020)

• Vice President @ CeSIUM (Oct 2017 → Sep 2018)

👨‍🎓 Education

• Master’s in Software Engineering @ University of Minho (Sep 2014 - Sep 2019)

 

More on my resume.