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    Rogerio Candeias

    Rogerio Candeias

    ex MIT / Founders Factory / BCG Digital Ventures

    I love building technology products that solve problems that matter - I have done it 12+ times.

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    Posturban Ventures
    Posturban Ventures
    Chief Technology Officer 2022 - Present (over 4 years)
    At PUV our vision is to build businesses that make the world a better place using deep tech like: AI (Knowledge Graphs, NLP, DNNs, Computer Vision, Edge AI and Active Learning),... more Quantum Technologies, Biotech, Ag Tech and Enterprise Saas. I work as a technical co-founder for the business that we have invested in, while developing the prototypes, building the MVP and hiring the executive and product teams. I also advise some of the ventures on process and vision, as well on participating in deep tech ideation for the upcoming ventures.
    Nous
    Nous
    CTO (Interim) 2021 (8 months)
    Nous is creating a new kind of subscription service that manages your household bills by monitoring, suggesting and automatically switching you to a better deal.

    This... more will be accomplished by connecting several sources of user data (with their permission) like email, open banking, utility providers and other third-parties. By ingesting this data we will be able to actively monitor price walking or unfair tariffs.

    I built the first prototypes of the data collection engine, a forward and backwards looking estimator for a fair tariff, together with a frontend to display that data.

    Scouted, attracted, hired and onboarded early stage product engineers, while setting the product development process to doing rapid iteraction, executing several experiments in order to learn about our users.
    Hummingbird Technologies
    Hummingbird Technologies
    Chief Technology Officer (Interim) 2020 - 2021 (4 months)
    Hummingbird Technologies takes Satellite and UAV imagery and creates insights for farmers, growers, processors and governments.

    Our products work at a Planet Scale... more and we are able to identify agricultural fields, classify and predict crop types, measure Sustainable agricultural practices and predict yield for selected crops. We use a combination of Deep Learning and Computer Vision to count crops, identify weeds and measure crop line gaps using Ultra High Resolution imagery.

    I'm responsible for growing and developing the Engineering and Data Science team.
    BCG Digital Ventures
    BCG Digital Ventures
    Director of Engineering 2018 - 2020 (about 2 years)
    BCG DV is shaping the next generation of startups by leveraging the unfair advantage of its Fortune 500 corporate partners and globally launching 2 new businesses every month.... more As an Engineering Director I lead the engineer teams that built and delivered the following up to Series-B ventures:

    Heycar: https://heycar.co.uk/
    Fyld.ai: https://www.fyld.ai/
    Epsy: https://www.epsyhealth.com/
    Prophesea: (stealth venture for major mining company) Machine Learning for spot shipping fright prices

    In addition to that I've worked with several other corporate partners in ideation and innovation projects.
    Founders Factory
    Founders Factory
    Chief Technology Officer in Residence 2017 - 2018 (over 1 year)
    Founders Factory is building 60 new tech startups over the course of 5 years, and is backed up by VC investment from EasyJet, The Guardian, L'Oréal, Aviva and others.
    I... more lead the engineering teams that build the following ventures:

    Slick: https://www.getslick.com/
    Finmo: https://finmo.co.uk/
    Choosen.ai: https://chosen.ai/
    Airsupply: https://airsupply.org.uk
    Loyalive
    Loyalive
    CTO 2015 - 2016 (almost 2 years)
    Loyalive was a loyalty aggregator covering more than 350 programs in the UK and USA, with native apps available for Android and iOS, and a service API target to major UK banks... more and digital mobile wallet providers (like Samsung). I lead the teams developing the backend and programs coverage effort, the mobile apps and respective SDKs, while providing our service to more than 100k monthly active users.
    Dibbz
    Dibbz
    CTO 2013 - 2015 (over 1 year)
    Dibbz was a reward-based advertising network for mobile devices. Built a new real-time bidding (RTB) platform for programmatic mobile advertising buying, which learned a user’s... more patterns using several machine-learning techniques, and was capable of outputting up to 50.000 QPS. Concurrently, implemented a backend API serving several millions of reward requests every month, and developed and supervised Android and iOS SDKs that reached 1 million unique device installs in just 6 weeks.
    MEDQUALY
    MEDQUALY
    Founder, CEO, CTO 2012 - 2013 (over 1 year)
    Medqualy was a startup implementing an online appointment system for Healthcare Professionals.
    Implemented a real-time calendar application with multiple agents and user... more permissions to manage all clinical appointment bookings for healthcare providers. The system would also allow patients to track their appointments, get notified beforehand and allow them to engage with their doctors online. At its peak 10% of patients seeking a new appointment, visit the site every day.
    Founder
    MEDQUALY
    Employee
    Dibbz, Loyalive, Founders Factory, BCG Digital Ventures, Hummingbird Technologies, Nous, Posturban Ventures
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    Python React.js Terraform AWS GCP Machine Learning Node.js Flask Django Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Scikit-learn TypeScript Next.Js
    Locations
    London
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