Senior Software Engineer · Meta

Nuno Dias
Mendes

Experienced and versatile engineer with a long career spanning both industry and academia — from high-performance scientific platforms to full-stack product development. Currently at Meta, based in New York.

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Senior Software Engineer
Meta · Aug 2021 – Present
20+
Years experience
7
Publications
PhD
Dual award
4
Languages
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Experience

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Aug 2021 – Present · New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer
Meta
Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer
Heartbeat Health
Feb 2018 – Jul 2020 · Lisbon, Portugal
Senior Software Engineer → Team Lead
Practio
Full-stack developer for digital health transformation. Led the Lisbon engineering team while continuing as individual contributor, offering technical mentoring to the team.
JavaScript NodeJS ReactJS MySQL MongoDB
2017 – 2018
Senior Software Engineer
Pentaho
2016 – 2017
Software Engineer & Head of R&D
Findmore
2014 – 2016
Consultant
Bold International
2014
Head of IT
HeartGenetics
2010 – 2014 · Lisbon, Portugal
Associate Researcher
KDBIO Group – INESC-ID Lisboa
Research in knowledge discovery and bioinformatics. Development of pipelines for miRNA identification and target analysis based on genome sequence and RNA-seq data.
2013 – 2014 · Oeiras, Portugal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Forest Biotech Lab – iBET
2012 – 2013 · Oeiras, Portugal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Network Modelling Group – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Qualitative modelling of gene regulatory networks and exploration of the corresponding dynamics.
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Research & Publications

Research interests included development of pipelines for miRNA identification, web-based tools for biological data repositories, ontology design, and qualitative modelling of gene regulatory networks.

Bioinformatics
MUSA: a parameter free algorithm for the identification of biologically significant motifs
2006
Nucleic Acids Research
YEASTRACT-DISCOVERER: new tools to improve the analysis of transcriptional regulatory associations in S. cerevisiae
2007
Nucleic Acids Research
Current tools for the identification of miRNA genes and their targets
2009
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Education

Doctor of Philosophy · Computational Biology
Instituto Superior Técnico
2006 – 2011 · Lisbon, Portugal

Single PhD awarded jointly by both universities under a dual degree agreement. Hosted by the BAOBAB Group at LBBE, France.

Doctor of Philosophy · Computational Biology
Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I)
2006 – 2011 · Lyon, France
Master of Science · Computer Science
Instituto Superior Técnico
2004 – 2005 · Lisbon, Portugal

Thesis: Inference of complex motifs using biclustering techniques.

Bachelor of Science · Information Systems & Computer Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico
2003 · Lisbon, Portugal
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Skills

Engineering
JavaScript TypeScript NodeJS ReactJS Python Perl MySQL MongoDB Full-stack Algorithms
Research & Science
Bioinformatics Computational Biology Machine Learning Data Mining Ontology Design RNA-seq miRNA Analysis Gene Regulatory Networks
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Contact

Feel free to get in touch for professional enquiries, collaborations, or just to say hello.

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