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Alexandre Alves

AI, Cloud & Solution Architect

Lisbon, Portugal, Europe / WEST Timezone

Professional Summary

I've always been a hands-on person, with an overarching pursuit for excellent delivery and proper feedback between my clients and colleagues. To achieve this, I've worked with several industries on these 11 years, to learn what led them further and what were their woes: from a Food Manufacturing plant and their specific requirements; to a wind turbine construction site abroad and their multi-cultural, multi-asset team; to planning electronic safety mechanisms and preparing homeland security solutions to a wide range of customers; to maintaining and improving a management platform for Renewable generators through a multitude of protocols, automations and custom client requests, to maintaining APIs for a british FinTech, API gateways and their cloud infrastructure on Insurance and, now, moving beyond to AI architecture on Telco.

Core Competencies

Artificial Intelligence

Architecture & Design

Cloud & Infrastructure

Project Management

Programming

Industries

Other

Professional Experience

AI & Cloud Architect

NOS Technologies, S.A.

through InnoWave

Mar 2025 — Present Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid)
  • Designed, planned and envisioned the AI reusable core and use-case agents' architecture and its cloud infrastructure.
  • Empowered development squads with technical knowledge and proof-of-concepts to support technical discussions about agents.
TelcoGCPCloud RunContainersIaCGKECI/CDFinOpsLLMRAGVDBVoice PipelinesVoice GenAIVertex AIGeminiTelephonyMicroservicesEDSDDDSecurity & ComplianceJiraConfluenceScrumPythonYAML

Azure Tech-Owner & Solutions Architect

InnoWave Technologies, S.A.
Oct 2024 — Mar 2025 Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid)
  • Maintained current systems and new PoCs based on Azure / cloud infrastructure.
  • Supported both Client and internal infrastructure with cost and efficiency in mind.
  • Prepared diagrams, documentation and technical PoCs to support RFPs and commercial proposals.
BankingTelcoAzureAzure FunctionsAPI ManagementContainersFinOpsIaCRFPsSecurity & ComplianceEDSMicroservicesLLMRAGVDBFoundryOpenAIYAML

Azure APIM & Cloud Manager

Grupo Ageas Portugal, S.A.

through InnoWave

May 2023 — Oct 2024 Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid)
  • Managed Azure API Management internal (and some external) API integrations, ranging from publication to security, logging and good practices' validation.
  • Created and maintained Ageas' APIM.Ops, an automation platform of processes and dashboards for APIM instances and connected cloud services.
  • Optimized the Cloud infrastructure (both cost and usability-wise) on several projects and company-wide.
InsuranceAzureAPI ManagementFinOpsAzure FunctionsEvent HubADXVMIISService BusPower AutomateMicroservicesSecurity & ComplianceConfluenceADOC# (.NET)YAML

Featured Projects

Portfolio & Wealth Tracker

Link ↗

A personal finance management web application designed to automatically parse transactional statements from several sources into a private, local database with rich visual summaries.

PythonSvelteKitSQLiteViteFile Parsing

Education

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Industrial Automation)

Lisbon School of Engineering (ISEL)

Sep 2007 — Jul 2015 | Lisbon, Portugal

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
    Azure
  • Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD®)
    Scrum
  • Azure IoT Academy
    IoT
  • Jira Fundamentals
    Jira