Guilherme Almeida

Backend Engineer at FaceVision (Zerozero)

Backend engineer in an 8-person team delivering a face recognition backend. Analyzed, filtered and processed around 30k images of Portugal's national team players. Designed the high-level architecture and implemented key components, including generation of face embeddings and storage in a dedicated vector database.

Project Developer at Self-initiated Project

Phishing website detector from screenshots using computer vision. Involved data collection, preprocessing, model training and evaluation, plus a CLI interface for user interaction.

Full-Stack Developer at MyRel

Implemented all backend logic for a PHP/Laravel-based social platform, including database operations, authentication, and user privileges.

Professional Athlete at Porto Athletics Club

Practicing Track and Field for 15 years, specializing in Decathlon & Heptathlon. Achievements include national titles and Olympic Hopes participation.

Backend Engineer at FaceVision

Designed system architecture and implemented backend features; generated face embeddings, managed embeddings database, and built a data pipeline from image input to facial vector output; processed ~30,000 images of 90 Portuguese national team players.

Developer at Independent Project – Phishing Detector Tool

Phishing website detector from screenshots using computer vision. Collected, prepared and cleaned data, trained and improved the model, evaluated results, and developed a small CLI for user interaction.

DevOps Engineer / Network Engineer at NeoLogos-networks

Secure and fast-to-deploy virtual network for crisis zones; built portable web server with Redbean, Lua, SQLite; automated full network setup with Ansible including containers; used Docker to simulate IT and Medical departments in isolated VLANs; set up a router container with firewall rules.

System Administrator / DevOps Engineer at Personal Home Server Infrastructure

Self-hosted server for personal cloud services; deployed multiple services (Nextcloud, Pi-hole, Immich) with Docker; configured Nginx reverse proxy; implemented secure remote access via Tailscale mesh VPN.