MiguelRodrigues
AI product engineer
- 4+ years in production
- MSc AI Engineering, ISEP
- Porto, Portugal
Olá! I'm Miguel.
I'm the kind of guy who loves knowing a bit about everything: frontend, backend, AI, product, business, design and even infrastructure.
End to end
- Idea
- Design
- Frontend
- Backend
- AI
- Infra
- Live
I don't hand things off halfway: I like to take a problem and only let go once people are using the fix.
Why the tiles?
No mystery here: I'm from Porto, Portugal, and if you've ever been here, chances are you've seen plenty of these around the city. They just feel like home :)
Case in point: my side project
Scooli
It started with a problem I watched teachers close to me struggle with. Today it's AI lesson planning for Portuguese teachers, grounded in the national curriculum.
500+ teachers · 1,000+ documentsscooli.app
One request, from the teacher to the models and back.
Meanwhile, at ISEP
MSc thesis
I wrapped up my MSc in AI Engineering with a thesis that also lives in the classroom: spotting the learning difficulty behind a student's mistakes, with almost no labelled data.
Illustrative sentence
wewenttothelibaryPhonologicalandsawalotSpacingofbiggSpellingbooks
Spelling errors
DeBERTa-v3 tags phonological, spelling and spacing errors.
0.642 span F1 on real text
Illustrative example
302−127225Student answer
“Smaller from larger” bug
Plus a slip: 226
Symbolic ML
Maths misconceptions
A symbolic bug simulator against an ML classifier.
Noisy answers: ML 61.7%, symbolic 0%
Illustrative example
Difficulty profiles
Clustering turns errors into readable student profiles.
ARI 0.97 · 1,519 real students
Not everything worked: synthetic pre-training hurt real-data F1 by 2.5–7 points. The thesis reports that too.
Add it all up
What I bring
Scooli, the thesis and years of client work, boiled down to what I can do for your team.
How I got here
Experience
Where I learned the craft: banking, retail and enterprise products, shipped for real clients.
2026 – now
Scooli
Side project
500+ teachers. Full stack, AI and infra.
2025 – now
Vaibe
Infuse, formerly Körber Digital
Software Engineer
+30% engagement. Design system. AI recommendation POC.
2022 – 2025
ITSector
Frontend Engineer
Banking apps, +1.2★ rating. Led the dev team.
2020
Santa Maria da Feira Council
Full-stack Engineer
Online stores: +35–45% sales.
Education
- 2024 – 2026MSc, AI EngineeringISEP, Porto
- 2020 – 2023BSc, Computer EngineeringISPGAYA, Porto
Built for fun
- KeepOrYeet · Swipe to clean your camera roll.
- Pickems Center · Euro 2024 predictions game.
- vibeFest · A shared Spotify party playlist.
Building something with AI in it? Let's talk.
Open to AI product engineering roles.