João was part of a robotic soccer team implementing scientific progress and innovation in cognitive systems and Robotics applications at the Intelligent Robots and Systems Laboratory (IRS Group), while studying for his computer engineering degree. João joined Janea Systems in April 2015, working from Portugal.

He coordinated software development and was responsible for the ROS based middleware at RoCKIn. After graduating he worked on robotics research for several years as a software engineer.

After joining Janea Systems, he worked on maintaining the Windows version of Node.js, including the development and maintenance of the Windows CI system in close collaboration with the open source community. João also worked on several cloud agnostic projects, giving him deep experience and ability to work across the board, from embedded to massive web applications.

João likes learning better tools to make new things, solving problems that make a difference and making the quality of the final solution his first priority.