Curriculum Vitæ ¶

This CV contains most of the things I have identified, without any particular selection or filter: I keep it mostly to keep track of things I do, and their presence here is no indication of importance. I have also added links to articles I’ve written here when they are relevant: leaving a position, joining a new company, etc. This is not a résumé, but a description of not only what I did, but also why.

My career is deeply rooted in my early involvement in free software, open source and GNU/Linux, and from that starting point I’ve grown through different experiences and challenges: programming, systems administration, solution design, business cases, Enterprise Architecture, architectural leadership.

While I have necessarily learned and adopted plenty on the pre-sales/sales side (including business constraints and how value propositions are often not centred around the technical aspects), I have always kept myself close to technology, which is why you’ll find roles around cloud computing, AI, Quantum computing, Data Science, IoT, and others.

Professional Experience ¶

Cloud & Architecture Lead for Southwest and East Europe (SAS Institute) 2021 – ¶

(See Joining SAS as Cloud & Architecture Lead. A new challenge which I’ve been greatly enjoying, an international role that is both challenging and fulfilling.)

• Practice leader covering most of Europe, leading a team of 15–30 architects and specialists. Focus on architectural consistency of solutions, business goals, and applying technical expertise on cloud-based solutions supporting Analytics, Data Science and AI projects.
• Direct involvement in key opportunities, addressing C-levels stakeholders on Cloud and Architecture topics as a valued advisor and leading solution design for cloud opportunities, working with partners to drive opportunities to completion.
• Solution design processes based on Enterprise Architecture and CSP’s Well-Architected Frameworks, targeting the improvement of technical assets.
• Established standard architectures and blueprints for Cloud opportunities around the deployment of analytics solutions on public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM).
• Technical development of Architects and SMEs in Cloud (developing and promoting certification plans) and Architecture (solution design methods, cloud reference architectures).

Chief Architect (IBM) 2013 – 2021 ¶

(See Farewell IBM!. Where I was able to do things that I could only imagine before.)

• Lead Architect in IBM Services for Container Platforms offering, solution design & implementation with Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, GKE.
• Chief Architect in client accounts. Responsible for the architectural and technological governance, and innovation model. Responsible for the technical solution for RFSs and RFPs
• Smarter Cities & IoT Solution Architect. Solution design for RFPs and MVPs for Smart Cities and Internet of Things.
• Technical Expert Council member. Led Executive-sponsored activities, I represented IBM in industry and academic events on the topics of Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Intellectual capital development and patent generation contributor.
• Quantum Ambassador: Officially approved to share IBM’s perspective on quantum computing to clients and the scientific community.

Technical Solutions Architect (IBM) 2007 – 2013 ¶

• Created technical solutions and associated business case, both as a lead architect and also as a Unix and Storage architect.

Systems Engineer (Novabase) 2006–2007 ¶

The short stay here was due to very special circumstances. I appreciated the opportunity, although my scope was only tangentially related with my core skills after a while.

• Solution design, infrastructure deployment and integration.

Unix Systems Administrator (Edinfor/LogicaCMG) 2003–2007 ¶

Where I really learned what managing critical systems was about, and had my hands in everything from AIX to HP-UX, including programming the boot loader of old Sparc systems in Forth and dealing with DCE.

• Unix system administration (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and GNU/Linux) & infrastructure solution design.

System Administrator (IT-LOG) 2001–2003. ¶

“I really like this Unix thing, I think I could be paid for it”. Moving from programming to system administation.

• Unix and GNU/Linux system administration, infrastructure solution design and subsystems management.

Developer (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) 1998–2001. ¶

Apparently, learning to program in C because you found this gcc command in your GNU/Linux system can get you paid.

• Programming in Tcl, Java, Scheme, Common Lisp.

Logistics, Transportation & Organisation Office at the 8th Ibero-American Summit (Foreign Office) 1998. ¶

Large international event, it was exceptionally rewarding to be in the thick of it.

• Member of the Logistics and Transportation office, worked in the preparation of this international event, coordination of the diplomatic liaisons.

Education ¶

BSc in Physics (ongoing, current average 2:1). Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. ¶

An old passion, I applied to Physics after “forcing” myself to catch up with decades of Mathematics – when I had to make a decision, the established practice was for Humanities students to stop having Math courses. I will be forever in debt to Khan Academy, since it provived me with the framework to relearn what I had forgotten, and start learning new things, which prepared me for Calculus, Linear Algebra, and the rest – but more than that, it made me enjoy every step of it. I was also partially driven to it due it by wanting to understand Quantum computing at a deeper level.

• Coursework assignment on Quantum computation, quantum mechanics and quantum processors as part of the curricular assignment and covering the keys concepts and present state of quantum research.

MA in Archaeology (thesis submission pending, current average 1st Class). Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. ¶

The logical follow-up to my initial choice, this time at a deeper level. I continued to apply my IT knowledge in useful ways, and that’s just scratching the tip of the iceberg.

• Pending thesis on pre-Roman Iberia and Iron Age ethnogenesis.
• Tracking of archaeological artifacts in museum collections, proof-of-concept of using barcodes, RFID, mobile technologies, blockchain and virtual assistants for tracking archaeological material.

BA in Archaeology (Honours – 1st Class), Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. ¶

I was split between Physics and Archaeology when I had to make a decision (that was when I was around 15 years old). Never regretted it, and actually ended up making the same choice again when it was time to go back and finish it, after a decade in IT.

• Letter of Academic Excellence for highest final grade in course.
• Final Course paper on Bronze swords and the Late Bronze Age in Western Iberia, with highest possible grade.
• Course assignments and papers on using GIS and machine learning, including The use of neural networks for Calcolithic arrowhead classification, a deep learning approach to artefact classification through neural networks.

Selected open-source contributions & projects ¶

• Kubernetes Project Release Team: Member of the Kubernetes Release team since the v1.25 release. Served as Communications Lead for the v1.26 release, and as part of the Enhancements and Release Notes teams; after being a part of the Release Lead team as a shadow, I was nominated the Release Lead for the Kubernetes v1.32 release.
• Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience Member & Blogging Lead: Active member of SIG Contributor Experience, and the Blogging Lead for the SIG Contribex Comms team.
• Debian Developer: One of the first Debian Developers in my geography (in the now distante year 2000).
• Linux device driver for the Toshiba Tecra S1 — Linux kernel module for the Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop.
• Budō Lineage Tree — community-based platform for creating an universal database of martial artists, done in JavaScript with Node.js, Cytoscape.js, Bulma, Parcel.js, and TimeLineJS. (See Budō Lineage Tree).
• Voting Analysis — covered in the national media, developed in Python with Pandas, scikit-lean, numpy, Seaborn. The interactive portal can be reached here.

Selected certification ¶

• Master Certified Architect (The Open Group)
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Container & Kubernetes
• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
• Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (Linux Foundation)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Azure AI Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals
• IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
• IBM Microservices Specialist
• Cisco IoT Essentials Partner Certification, Sales
• Associate Quantum Ambassador, IBM
• Quantum Challenge 2020 Achievement– Advanced.

Language skills ¶

• Portuguese native speaker.
• Certificate of Proficiency in English, Grade A (CEFR C2, native fluency), by Cambridge English Language Assessment.
• Professional fluency in Spanish, and to a lesser degree Italian and French.

Technical skills overview ¶

It’s messy to try and describe “technical skills” considering that they are very different in terms of mastery... still, there’s some value in at least identify some of the ones that are relevant enough for me. There’s an omission in the list that needs to be here: I use GNU Emacs for pretty much everything, and it has been my companion in this journey. The extensible, customisable, self-documenting display editor continues to be as relevant as it was in the 1981 paper.

Programming languages

Python, R, Common Lisp, Objective-C, C, JavaScript, Go, Clojure, Java, shell scripting.

Operating Systems

GNU/Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, BSD. Going back a bit more, AmigaOS and Sinclair BASIC.

Cloud platforms & tools

Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud, OpenShift, Heroku, CloudFoundry, Knative, Terraform, Bicep, ARM.

Machine learning, AI, & Data Science frameworks

Jupyter, scikit-learn, SAS, MXNet, Tensorflow, Caffe.

Big Data Frameworks

Apache Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Apache Arrow.

Scientific production

Octave, MATLAB, LaTeX, RStudio, Quarto.

Selected courses & badges

OpenShift Administration, Improving Deep Neural Networks (DeepLearning.AI), Machine Learning with Python, MATLAB Onramp, Deep Learning Onramp (Mathworks), Data Analysis with Python, R Programming, Google Professional Cloud Architect: Hybrid.

Selected papers, articles & projects ¶

1. Muñoz, Frederico (2023). Budō Lineage Tree — community-based platform for creating an universal database of martial arts, written in JavaScript with Node.js, Cytoscape.js, Bulma, Parcel.js, and TimeLineJS. Uses GitHub Actions for converting the YAML-based database into an interactive visualisation.
2. Muñoz, Frederico (2022). Open Data and Data Science: Analysis of the Parliamentary Activity of the XIII and XIV Legislatures. — covered in the national media, developed in Python with Pandas, scikit-lean, numpy, Seaborn.
3. Muñoz, Frederico (2021) English Proficiency Index 2020: a closer look by language family — (SAS)
4. Muñoz, Frederico (2019). Tracking Cassini: a proof-of-concept serverless service using OpenWhisk with FORTRAN and the NASA SPICE toolkit — FORTRAN, Matlab, Apache OpenWhisk (serverless functions).
5. Muñoz, Frederico (2018). Atægina: an explorable geographical database for Lisbon archaeological sites. — QGIS, Python, Flask, Folium, PostgreSQL with PostGIS.
6. Muñoz, Frederico (2017). Using Watson for skin lesions identification (IBM Data Science Experience, 9th Workshop on Biomedical Engineering) — Jupyter, Python, Watson API.
7. Muñoz, Frederico (2017). Watson IoT with Common Lisp: using ABCL with Eclipse Paho for IoT integration via MQTT (developerWorks Recipes) — Common Lisp, Clojure, MQTT.
8. Muñoz, Frederico (2017). Creating an OpenWhisk Web Action: creating an image conversion action and using it from R. (developerWorks Recipes) — tutorial on serverless computing, using R and OpenWhisk.
9. Muñoz, Frederico (2011). IBM PowerVM deployment modeling features for virtualization. developerWorks.

Selected Conference Presentations & Seminars ¶

2023

Kubernetes 1.26 Release Webinar (CNCF). Official Kubernetes webinar on the v1.26 release.

Higher Education’s New Normal (HUMANE). Speaker on this international conference on higher education, providing an industry view of the impact of the pandemic through data.

2021

Quantum Roadmap & Qiskit (Instituto Superior Técnico). Demonstration of Quantum programming using Qiskit, Quantum roadmap for academia and industry.

2020

Journey to Cloud (Think Digital Summit). Host of the session and presenter.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra). Invited lecturer.

IDC Multicloud Webinar Series (IDC). Speaker on IT Strategy in a Hybrid Multicloud era.

Physics Engineering Journeys (Instituto Superior Técnico). Presentation and demonstration of Quantum computing.

2019

Medical decision and Artificial Intelligence (CUF Descobertas Hospital). Speaker, IBM Watson for healthcare & AI.

Physics Engineering Journeys (Instituto Superior Técnico). Invited speaker for an industry PoV and presenter on Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and the connection with Physics.

Portuguese Cardiology Congress. Speaker on the session “In the future, the cardiologist best friends will be...”, on the topic of AI, healthcare and “Watson-like” decision support.

2018

Turning the City of Braga into a Smart City (Cisco, Braga City). As the architect for the solution I participated in the public reference video with Cisco and the City of Braga.

Data Science in (Astro)particle Physics and the Bridge to Industry (LIP). Speaker, IBM’s work in Data Science, AI and quantum computing.

Artificial Intelligence and Smart(er) Cities: Challenges and opportunities amidst a digital disruption (FICIS, Braga). Keynote speaker on Smart Cities.

Dialogue response and processing: Resources and tools (TechLING, UAL). Presentation on AI applied to language processing and aquisition.

Pfizer Townhall Talks (Pfizer). Speaker, Watson for Health: Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences & Healthcare.

Think Lisbon Summit. Speaker, IoT, beyond connectivity and data. Responsible the IoT demonstrations prepared and centered on intelligent vehicles.

FICIS International Smart Cities Summit (Braga). Speaker and panel member on AI and Smart Cities.

HUMANE Spring Seminar: Digital Transformation and Higher Education. Invited speaker, A view from the bridge of the Big Tech Sector: AI and Big Data.

2017

9th Workshop on Biomedical Engineering (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon). Speaker,

Cognitive systems and AI. Responsible for the delivery of a hands-on workshop on using image recognition in the context of melanoma identification (Jupyter, machine learning).

Cognitive Analytics – BI Talks (NOVA IMS). Seminar integrated in the Postgraduate Programme in Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence. Part of the panel and speaker.

Research Day (Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon). Speaker to an audience of medical students, researchers and MDs, Watson for Healthcare and Life Sciences.

1st Yearly Lisboa Living+ Conference (University of Lisbon). Invited speaker and member of the debate panel on the topic of Big Data applied to healthcare.

IBM Services in Action! (Altis, Belém): speaker on the topic of automation, cognitive systems and data analysis.

IBM Ecosystem Summit (Lisbon): speaker on IoT with demonstration of weather sensing integration with IoT platform.

2016

IBM Smarter Cities e Cidades do Futuro (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar). Speaker on Smart Cities and IoT, in the context of the post-graduate programme in Business Intelligence.

2015

IBM Smarter Cities e Cidades do Futuro (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar). idem.

2013

Evocation of the great fire of Chiado (Lisbon City Hall). Speaker and presenter of the developed solution for the event to the City Mayor and officials.

2013

2.º Summit on Formal and Semi-formal methds in Architecture. (Escola Superior Artística do Porto): invited lecturer on Smart Cities and implication for city development and urbanism.

Esri Users Conference (Esri). Speaker, Intelligent Operation Center and geographical contextualisation of data.

Honours & Awards ¶

• IBM GTS Team of the Month, 2017, 2019 Active contributor to specifically significant and impactful projects.
• IBM Means Service Award, 2014, 2016 Extraordinary contributions in the achievement of corporate and unit goals.
• Manager Choice’s Award: 2018, 2019, 2020 Demonstrating the Put the client first practice.
• Letter of Academic Excellence (University of Lisbon) Highest course average.
• Commendation from the Portuguese Prime Minister Official commendation on the work done as part of the Foreign Office.

Miscellaneous ¶

• Membership

  Free Software Foundation, ANSOL, Association of The Open Group Architects.

• Federated activities

  Judo, swimming.

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