Hi there, I'm James Hertz G. Furtado, currently working as an AI Researcher at NOVA FCT. I like typing, reading books, and working on interesting problems. My interests span Generative AI, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture, and Compiler's Design.

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Career

AI Researcher
NOVA FCT - now
Took part in the AMALIA project (first sovereign European Portuguese LLM) and the prestigious Amazon Nova AI Challenge competition as a member of team BlueTWIZ.

AWS Services: EC2 • S3 • Lambda • CodeBuild • Bedrock

Other Technologies: LLM-Harness • vLLM • Python • SSH

Teaching Assistant
NOVA FCT -
Delivered practical lectures to two classes of 30 students each for introductory programming courses, covering Java and Python.
Research Intern in Distibuted System
NOVA LINCS -
Implemented and evaluated a new Distributed Hash Table (DHT) design for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). The evaluation consisted of 600 containerized IPFS nodes interacting with each other as a peer-to-peer network, orchestrated across 10 machines with Docker Swarm.

Technologies: Web3 • Docker Swarm • Golang • Bash • Python

Education

Msc in Computer Science
NOVA FCT - now
Coursework already completed. Currently working on master thesis.

Specialization: Distributed and Parallel Systems

DARE 2024
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Took part in DARE 2024, the second ACM Europe Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments, held in Darmstadt, Germany. A week of talks and discussions on mixed-consistency systems, replicated data types, verification, and Byzantine fault tolerance.
Bsc in Computer Science
NOVA FCT -
Beyond coursework, started getting involved in Distributed Systems research.