Profile
I build software, and lately, software that thinks in teams of agents.
Master's student in Software Engineering at the University of Minho, specialising in Artificial Intelligence and researching agentic and multi-agent systems.
Vol. I · No. 8Braga, PortugalOctober 2026
João Coelho
Master's Student in Software Engineering
About The Work
Through hackathons and a lot of side projects, I've gained experience building AI systems, spanning time-series models, reinforcement learning and NLP. Currently, I am researching agentic AI systems applied to safety-critical processes in industrial settings, using orchestration frameworks like LangGraph.
Beyond academics, I was Co-Director of the Department of Technology at CeSIUM, where I helped lead a team of volunteer developers and contributed to projects for Software Engineering students at the University of Minho and for nationwide events. I also mentored young coders at CoderDojo, trying to make some of them fall in love with programming just as I did.
Selected Projects
ENEI (Pearl)
Technical infrastructure for Portugal's largest national conference for computer science students, hosting 600+ attendees.
PhoenixElixirTailwind CSS
Pombo (Astra)
Schedule management web platform for Software Engineering students at University of Minho.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
FitSense
Mobile app that uses a CNN-LSTM model to recognize physical exercises from motion sensor data in real time, with a human feedback loop that turns user corrections into training data.
React NativePyTorchFirebase
Hydrogen
Landing page for University of Minho's Software Engineering Student Center (CeSIUM).
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
Experience
Co-Director of CAOS (Open-Source Department)
Leading the department responsible for all software development activities within the student organization.
- Managing a team of developers to build and maintain open-source projects for the University of Minho community
- Oversee project planning, task distribution, and technical decision-making across multiple initiatives
Tech Team Member
Contributed to Portugal's largest national informatics conference.
- Contributed to the technical architecture and deployment strategy for systems handling 600+ attendees
- Supported systems for registration and event-day operations with focus on reliability and scalability
- Collaborated on backend, frontend, and infrastructure decisions
Frontend Developer Intern
Developed responsive UI features for a commercial marketplace.
- Engineered responsive UI features using Vue.js, focusing on component reusability and state management
- Streamlined data flow by architecting and consuming RESTful APIs, reducing latency in frontend rendering
Python Mentor
- Mentor students aged 7-17 in Python programming within a volunteer-based community coding club
- Support over 50 students in developing foundational programming skills and problem-solving abilities