Jose Miguel Alves

Senior Software Engineer

I'm a senior software engineer with +10 years of experience building AI-powered systems and large-scale data platforms. My work sits at the intersection of machine learning, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure from multi-agent LLM applications to Spark/Kubernetes workloads on AWS. I tend to work on problems with enough depth that some of it has ended up published or in a patent application, and I care a lot about shipping things that actually work in production.

Experience

2022 – Present

Varicent

Senior Machine Learning Engineer — Data & ML Backend · Toronto, Canada

2019 – 2021

Paladin AI — acquired, now PACE InstructIQ (TXT Group)

Founding Machine Learning Engineer — Data & ML Backend · Montreal, Canada

2017 – 2019

Western University

M.Sc. Researcher & Teaching Assistant · London, Canada

2010 – 2017

Ícaro Technologies — IBM Business Partner

Software Engineer — Data Analytics & ITSM · Campinas, Brazil

Publications & Patents

Apr 2021

USPTO Patent

Automatic inferential pilot competency analysis based on detecting performance norms in flight simulation data

US20220335850A1 →

Oct 2019

IEEE Access Journal

ML4IoT: A framework to orchestrate machine learning workflows on Internet of Things data

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8876834 →

Education

2017 – 2019

Western University

M.E.Sc. in Software Engineering · London, Canada

Thesis. Research focus on ML frameworks for IoT data pipelines, published in IEEE Access.

2005 – 2010

University of São Paulo — USP

B.Sc. in Information Systems · São Carlos, Brazil

Open source

AWS CLI Configure

VS Code extension

A VS Code–compatible extension for Cursor, VSCodium, and any Open VSX–based editor. Open your ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config files directly from the editor, switch the active AWS profile from the status bar, and set any named profile as [default] — no terminal required.