Ricardo Cosme
Head of Cloud and Systems
Skype: ricjcosme | (+351) 932 391 654| ricjcosme@gmail.com
 linkedin.com/in/ricardocosme  github.com/ricjcosme
- 19 years of overall experience in complex and demanding IT positions
- 15 years of Development of public, wide range Software Projects with a "hands-on" approach
- 12 years of Management and Technical Leadership on both local and geographically dispersed teams
across the globe
- Head of Development in large scale Media and Information delivery systems and distributed and high
availability communication clusters
- Extensive exposure to large Systems Integration / Migration, Data Management / Analytics and GIS and
Business Intelligence
2016 - Current
2014 - Current
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Head of Cloud and Systems
Veniam
Veniam is a technology startup focused on building large WiFi mesh networks using moving vehicles.
Veniam turns vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots and builds vehicular networks that expand wireless coverage
and collect terabytes of actionable data. In controlled spaces such as ports and container terminals,
Veniam’s game-changing solutions ensure that all mobile workers and assets are securely connected,
no matter where they are or at what speed they are moving.
Its hardware, software and cloud components are delivering managed services to intelligent
transportation systems in New York City and Singapore, as well as in the world's largest network of
connected vehicles, which includes taxis, waste collection trucks and the entire public bus fleet in Porto,
Portugal, offering free Wi-Fi to more than 480,000 active customers.
Senior Systems Engineer | Data and Cloud Specialist
Modulus One
Sector: Energy efficiency
Modulus One is a global brand that shares a common view in everywhere it operates. Acting in two
complementary areas – the development of Software and Systems and R&D in Electronics, its vision is to
develop intelligent products that enable efficient management of energetic resources.
With the company's need to focus on sales and growth, I stepped down as CIO in the beginning of 2015
and I've been providing IT services as a contractor for Modulus One since April 2016.
CTO
EVK
Sector: Brand activation and events, tourism and history
Evoke IT (EVK) is a technology startup that focuses on the design and implementation of customized
multimedia projects in a brand activation context and develops technological projects for cultural
spaces (museums, interpretive centers, tourist shops, etc.)
Duties and responsibilities:
IT and multimedia teams development and management
Embedded systems implementation
R&D
Recruitment
Sales
Client support
Programming languages
- Python (Django, Twisted, Flask): 6 years
- Erlang/OTP: 6 years
- Lua: 4 years
- PHP (CodeIgniter/Zend/Drupal): 12 years
- C#/.NET Framework: 10 years
- Javascript / Node.js: 15 years
- Java (SE/EE): 8 years
- C/C++: 6 years
- Go: 2 years
Data
- MySQL (v4.xx onward): 14 years
- MongoDB: 6 years
- PostgreSQL (w/ PostGIS & PL/SQL): 8 years
- MSSQL Server (v7.0 ... v2012): 12 years
- Cassandra: 4 years
- Redis: 6 years
- Elasticsearch / ELK: 2 years
- Solr: 6 years
- NLTK: 6 years
- GIS: 4 years
Architecture and Operations:
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ
- OpenVPN, IPSec / L2TP, Wireguard
- bash
- Nagios
- HAProxy / Squid / Varnish
- TCP/IP, LAN, WLAN, routing/switching
Application servers
- Apache: 12 years
- NginX: 6 years
- Tomcat: 4 years
- OpenResty (NginX + Lua): 2 years
- IIS: 12 years
Cloud / Virtualization / Containers
- Amazon AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Xen
- Linux KVM
- QEMU
- LibVirt
- Docker (Engine, Swarm, Registry, Shipyard)
- Kubernetes
- Openstack (Keystone / Glance / Nova /
Neutron / Cinder / Swift)
Executive Summary
Work experience
Technical Skills
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Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
Oct 2010 - Mar 2012
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data Management, Application Servers, Architecture and
Operations, Cloud, Containers, DevOps
More information here.
CIO / Co-founder
Modulus One
Sector: Energy efficiency
Modulus One is a global brand that shares a common view in everywhere it operates. Acting in two
complementary areas – the development of Software and Systems and R&D in Electronics, its vision is to
develop intelligent products that enable efficient management of energetic resources.
Duties and responsibilities:
Responsible for software architecture and development as well as corporate IT
IT budget management according to the envisioned business plan
IT steering and hand-on development management
Team leadership
Information workflow design
Agile methodology implementation
TDD / CI methodology implementation
Management and hands-on in Research & Development activities
Noteworthy achievements:
Successfully crafted the Lumen system with distributed computing, parallel processing and scalable
oriented strategy, for lighting fixtures and water meters efficiency management
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data, Application Servers, Architecture and Operations, Cloud,
Containers, DevOps
More information here.
CTO
InfoPortugal (IMPRESA)
Sector: GIS and mobility, digital content
InfoPortugal, SA is a digital content and geolocation technology solutions dedicated to GIS and mobility
markets. It was founded in 2001 and acquired by the Impresa group in 2007. It has the most complete
database of geographic data in Portugal, constantly updated, with more than 130,000 points of interest,
about 158,000 kilometers of georeferenced via shafts, 6,600 km2 of protected areas, more than 15,000
restaurants, 11,000 monuments, 5,000 hotels and up to 130,000 photos.
With InfoPortugal's bet on trying to winVisitPortugal's project, I stepped in as CTO.
Duties and responsibilities:
Head of IT, team leadership (5 + 2 interns), systems architecture, enterprise architecture, daily
operations
The technical ownership, implementation and maintenance of several small projects for customer
publishing areas
Hands-on development of Turismo de Portugal's VisitPortugal portal - from the initial proposal to
the final hand-off
Noteworthy achievements:
Successfull development and implementation of the two times nominee VisitPortugal to the World
Travel Awards
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data, Application Servers, Architecture and Operations, Cloud,
Virtualization, Containers, DevOps
More information here.
CTO
AEIOU (IMPRESA)
Sector: Media
AEIOU is a Portuguese portal, and is one of the precursors of the open source and free software initiative
in Portugal. In 2008, Impresa acquired AEIOU. When AEIOU's CTO and co-founder left in 2010, I took
over.
Duties and responsibilities:
Technical ownership and strategy definition of all company products
DevOps
- Jenkins
- Chef / Puppet
- Ansible
- Terraform
Most relevant and outstanding professional
projects
Veniam Platform
Real-time and delay-tolerant data
management.
Optimized for cost, prioritization, and context-
awareness.
Local and cloud APIs.
OMS / LUMEN
Software appliance that enables the remote
management of light fixtures and water
hydrometers (Modulus One)
VisitPortugal
Turismo de Portugal's authority website and
mobile apps (Impresa)
Professional Projects
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Jun 2008 - Jan 2014
Sep 2001 - Apr 2007
Direct management of the development team (6 + 4 interns)
The hands-on development and management of several drupal live websites: Relvado
(http://relvado.pt), Escape (http://escape.pt)
The technical ownership, implementation and maintenance of several small projects for customer
publishing areas
The maintenance of one of the biggest free webmail systems in Portugal - Xekmail
(http://xekmail.pt) - a solution built on top of Zimbra's technology that, at the time, accommodated
up to 25K users
The ongoing operations and support of a massive proprietary ad server named "Zahir"; built from
scratch in-house with Perl / MySQL, it has proved to be a valuable asset, and Impresa's own ad
server until late 2011, serving up to 100M requests per day.
The daily supervision and maintenance required by operating an internal datacenter that late 2011
evolved into a hybrid solution by also growing into cloud services (Amazon AWS) and virtualization
(KVM and XEN)
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data, Application Servers, Architecture and Operations, Cloud and
Virtualization, DevOps
More information here.
CTO
Impresa Digital (IMPRESA)
Sector: Media and broadcast
Impresa is the biggest Portuguese media group. It is the owner of SIC TV channel and Expresso
newspaper, among other leading media, like several magazine publications. A third online business
segment was launched as a "sub-holding" under the name Impresa Digital.
Duties and responsibilities:
Management and hands-on in Research & Development activities
Ownership, management and hands-on intervention on the SDLC of several software projects and
digital products
Responsible for the technological strategy definition and steering of the sub-holding and all the
companies it owned, which were:
Infoportugal, SA (http://www.inforportugal.pt)
AEIOU, SA (http://www.aeiou.pt)
Olhares.com (http://www.olhares.com)
Impresa Turismo e Lazer / Escape (http://escape.sapo.pt)
Impresa DGS - Digital Guest Services (now Nonius -https://www.noniussoftware.com)
MyGames (Videogames)
Impresa.com (Online advertising sales)
Impresa Direct (Email marketing)
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data Management & Analysis, Application Servers, Architecture
and operations, Cloud and Virtualization, Management, Leadership, Client relations.
More information here.
Senior System Developer | Senior IT Project Manager
CISION
Sector: Media, Business Intelligence
Cision, formerly Bacon's Information, was founded in 1932. When Bacon's was acquired by Observer AB
in 2001, it was renamed to Cision. Cision is the biggest Media Monitoring, Public Relations Services, PR
Software, Marketing Resources, Media Contacts Database and Press Release Distribution company in
the world.
Duties and responsibilities:
During the nearly six years in CISION, a professional journey that goes from Senior System Developer to
Senior IT Project Manager, there were several roles performed and many challenges successfully
overcome. It is with great pride and sense of accomplishment that I list the more complex and
demanding ones, which are, at the same time, the most rewarding.
Programming the first line of code to the complete SDLC management of what is nowadays an
award wining SaaS called CisionPoint
Requirement gathering, project setup, development and closure, closing the gap between the end
clients, the internal business stakeholders and the technical development teams
Interfacing multinational grade clients including Fortune 500 corporations that range from the
Coca-Cola corporation to Microsoft or the Norwegian DoD to the Portuguese Parliament
Technical responsibility for a high availability and geographically distributed system, in which are
inserted every day hundreds of thousands of items of information of all media types (TV, radio,
CisionPoint
CisionPoint is a web-based software as a
service product to build media lists, distribute
press releases, manage PR campaigns,
monitor news coverage and analyze results
(CISION)
Trivia: I wrote the first line of code of this
software back in 2001!
Projects I did for fun, personal interest and / or
to develop certain skills
meppar.com
"your content, on the map" - geo-mapping
locations extracted from rss feeds by the
means of natural language processing. Demo
at: http://meppardemo.tumblr.com
Individual Projects
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Nov 2001 - Jan 2006
Feb 2001 - Jul 2001
Aug 1997 - Jan 2001
newspapers ,internet and social networks), serving up 5,000 customers and 20,000 users
Noteworthy achievements:
Launched in the U.S. in October 2007, CisionPoint won a coveted CODiE Award as Best Online News
Service in 2009, its first year of eligibility, and it has been a five-time finalist in four different CODiE
Award categories during 2009-10, as judged by the Software and Information Industry Association. It
is currently a finalist in the Best Content Management Solution category of the 2010 CODiE Awards,
to be presented in May.
Successfull technical team leadership and management, with geographically dispersed software
development teams of up to 30 people in 6 countries
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data Management & Analysis, Application Servers, Management,
Leadership, Client relations
More information here.
E-learning Trainer
Evolui.com
Sector: E-learning
EVOLUI.COM is a leading online education service in the Portuguese market, with more than 200
courses. EVOLUI.COM is a training organization certified by DGERT that exists since 2000. More than
60,000 customers that came from nearly 30 different countries have attended EVOLUI.COM courses.
Duties and responsibilities:
Responsible for online training, support and students monitoring and evaluation and the content
development of four online courses.
Skill areas: E-learning
More information here.
System Developer
RCSoft, Software Development, Lda
Sector: Software development
RCSoft is a B2B company, creating software solutions for enterprise management.
Duties and responsibilities:
Development of custom CRM and Billing solutions for telco and industry sector companies like:
Revigrés (http://www.revigres.pt): ceramics industry
Pavigrés (http://www.pavigres.pt): ceramics industry
Portugal Telecom (http://www.telecom.pt): telecommunications
Skill areas: Programming languages, Data Management
More information here.
SysAdmin
NOS
Sector: Media and broadcast
NOS (formerly PT Multimédia, ZON Multimédia, ZON Optimus and TV Cabo) is a Portuguese media
holding company whose main assets include a satellite, cable operator, and ISP, a mobile phone
operator, a movie distributor (NOS Audiovisuais) and a virtual carrier of mobile phone services.
Duties and responsibilities:
Responsible for the configuration and reliable operation of computer systems and servers.
Daily IT operations and maintenance
Skill areas: Architecture and Operations, Data Management
More information here.
Sep 1993 - Mar 1997BSc CS
erlang.pt
Erlang Portugal is a non-profit community
created to evangelize the Erlang programming
language in Portugal.
Education
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ISEC
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (Coimbra Institute of Engineering)
Invited speaker at the DataCloud Europe Congress 2015
http://datacloudeuropeapp.com/conference/8445
"Enterprise Infrastructure Leadership Roundtable: Decision time for IT Sourcing?" remaining panel
composition:
- Alex Rabbetts (Managing Director, MigSolv)
- Paolo Bellamente (IT Director TNT)
- Susan Doniz (Board Director, Northern American Liquor Stores and 1gomedia)
- Hans Fabian (CIO, Schufa)
VisitPortugal nominated for "World's Leading Tourism Authority Website 2014" at the 2014 World
Travel Awards
http://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-travel-technologys-leading-tourism-authority-website-2014
Turismo de Portugal's authority website VisitPortugal (www.visitportugal.com) has been nominated for
the second year for the World's Leading Tourism Authority Website 2014 award at the 2014 World Travel
Awards.
VisitPortugal nominated for "World's Leading Tourism Authority Website 2013" at the 2013 World
Travel Awards
http://www.worldtravelawards.com/profile-28112-turismo-de-portugal
Not more than a week had passed since launch and www.visitportugal.com was being nominated for
the World's Leading Tourism Authority Website 2013 award at the 2013 World Travel Awards
CisionPoint - 2009 SIIA CODiE Award As Best Online News Service
SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association) CODiE Awards
https://www.siia.net/codie/About-the-Awards/Past-Winners/2009-Winners
Portuguese:Native or bilingual proficiency| English:Full professional proficiency
French:Elementary proficiency | Spanish:Elementary proficiency
Tennis, music, cinema, traveling, languages, world cultures
Honors & Awards
Languages
Personal Interests
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