Joao Robarts

Lead Software & Cloud Architect for Portugal’s Voluntary Carbon Market platform, mentoring a team of 3 to develop a Blazor frontend, ASP.NET Core API, and Azure SQL database. Built compliant networking and security infrastructure and integrated blockchain for transaction transparency. Engineered cloud IoT solutions: cloud-based IoT accelerator using Azure IoT Hub, processing real-time sensor data from 50+ devices for visualization in a Django/ASP.NET portal. Developed and maintained DevOps pipelines using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, and Azure DevOps to ensure repeatable deployments of cloud resources. Created a serverless data extraction pipeline on Azure to automate data capture from INFARMED's website using Azure Functions (timer/queue), Azure SQL, and Application Insights. The solution processes 500 records per run for reliable data acquisition for the Data & AI team.

Managed and optimized Azure infrastructure, using Cost Management tools to reduce monthly cloud spend by an average of 15% across client portfolios. Built custom automated data pipelines in Azure using microservices architecture to maximize scalability, improving data freshness from daily to near real-time for business reporting. Deployed and managed resources using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep), ensuring 100% environment consistency and reducing provisioning errors. Designed interactive Power BI reports that consolidated 5+ data sources, eliminating 10+ hours of weekly manual reporting.

Mentored 50+ students in Python, SQL, and data science fundamentals; debugged code and explained complex algorithms (OOP, ML).