Francisco
Barreiras

MSc in Computer Science · Based in Lisbon, Portugal

I'm a backend engineer working on event-driven architecture, reliability and big data. I enjoy solving problems, learning new technologies and building tooling to improve processes around work.

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Onboarding at ComplyAdvantage as a Junior Engineer

What worked in my first months as a Junior Engineer at ComplyAdvantage - communicating well with the team, and shaping the workspace around the friction I kept hitting.

  • career
  • onboarding
  • productivity

Experiences

  1. ComplyAdvantage

    Oct 2025 ·Now

    Junior Software Engineer at a cloud-based financial compliance platform that combines industry-leading AML risk intelligence with actionable risk signals to screen customers and monitor their behavior in near real time. My team is responsible for the central service that orchestrates messages between our microservices and for migrating and emulating clients from the old CSOM platform to our newest technology.

    • Kotlin
    • Kafka
    • Python
    • Golang
    • Postgres
    • Grafana
  2. NOVA LINCS

    Sept 2024 · Sept 2025

    Paid Scholarship to develop my master's thesis at NOVA LINCS, a computer science and informatics research lab founded at NOVA university Lisbon. I Built an automated pipeline to collect and process satellite imagery to monitor vegetation across Portugal and evaluate fire fuel break's state.

    • Python
    • RabbitMQ
    • Celery
  3. Master's in Computer Science and Engineering

    NOVA School of Science and Technology

    Sept 2023 · Sept 2025
  4. Bachelor's in Computer Science and Computer Engineering

    Lisbon School of Engineering (ISEL)

    Sept 2020 · Jul 2023