Sérgio Bessa

Director of Development at Ideavity

Portugal

Current
  • Director of Development at Ideavity Lda.
Past
Education
  • Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
  • Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
  • Escola Prof. Dr. Flávio Resende - Cinfães
Connections
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Sérgio Bessa’s Summary

Sérgio has six years of experience as system analyst, performing research, analysis, design and development of products and applications, including more than three years in the retail industry. Currently Sérgio works for Ideavity, Lda where he is responsible for guiding the design and development of Ideavity's social network platform Mingle and project management. He is also responsible for the administration of the project infrastructure.

From 2004 to 2006 Sérgio worked as a System Analyst for Enabler Informática, SA., where he was responsible for the analysis, development and on-site implementation of several products for the retail industry at clients in Portugal, Spain and the United States.

From the start of his career, in 2003, Sérgio has been researching on several fields, starting with P2P, RFID, Global Data Synchronization while working for Enabler and later focused on Advanced Network Systems in collaboration with the Sciences Faculty of Porto University.

Sérgio Bessa’s Specialties:

Project Management
Large scale open platforms, distributed systems
Systems administration
Object oriented programming languages


Sérgio Bessa’s Experience

  • Director of Development

    Ideavity Lda.

    (Internet industry)

    August 2006Present (3 years 4 months)

    Leading the development team on the social network platform Mingle (www.mingleworld.com)

    Design, analysis and development on Mingle platform using Actionscript, OpenAMF, Java, XMPP relying on JBoss, MySQL, Jabber, PyMSNT, Memcached, MogileFS...

    Administration of application servers and databases.

  • System Analyst

    Enabler Informática, SA

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2004July 2006 (1 year 9 months)

  • Trainee

    Enabler Informática, SA

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2003October 2004 (1 year 8 months)

    R&D on P2P, RFID, Global Data Synchronization, XML, WebServices


Sérgio Bessa’s Education

  • Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto

    Msc , Informatics - Systems and Networks , 20032008

    Activities and Societies:
    Thesis entitled:
    A Small World based Methodology for the Construction of Efficient Overlay Networks for DHTs
  • Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto

    Computer Science 19972003

  • Escola Prof. Dr. Flávio Resende - Cinfães

    19911997


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Sérgio Bessa’s Interests:

Internet, technology, gadgets, mountain biking, music

Sérgio Bessa’s Groups:

  •    Grupo de Arquitectura de Software Português
  •    Portuguese Entrepreneurship Network
  •    Universidade do Porto Alumni
  •    Gathering of Developers

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