Built low-level systems from scratch in C at 42 Lisboa, including a working replica of the Bash shell, a raycasting 3D engine, and a multithreaded concurrency simulator. Previously on the organizing team of TecStorm, JUNITEC's national university tech competition, which ran 65 teams and 300+ students on a €30k budget backed by Gulbenkian, Vodafone, EDP, and KPMG. Former first-division volleyball player and lifelong musician; now building the engineering behind Reach's AI Search Optimization platform.