Daniel Costa Matos

A highly skilled software developer with proficiency in Java, C#, Python, and SQL, complemented by experience in HTML, CSS, C/C++, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Demonstrates expertise in modern development tools such as Docker, Kafka, TeamCity, and Concourse CI/CD. Holds a BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile and possesses native proficiency in Portuguese and professional proficiency in Spanish. Committed to leveraging technical skills to drive innovative solutions and enhance team productivity.

SOLVING PUZZLES FROM PHOTOS USING OCR – (BACHELOR'S PROJECT)

Developed an application to solve grid-based puzzles from a photograph taken on a mobile device, using advanced computing techniques such as Optical Character Recognition and Neural Networks, Trained the Tesseract engine to identify puzzle grid /data in photo and optimised the model to better deal with images containing different levels of noise, Assessed scalability of the application to perform on range of grid-based puzzles.

EXPLORING PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCE FOR HAND-TRACKING VS CONTROLLERS ON META QUEST 2 – (MASTER'S PROJECT)

Developed a series of object manipulation tasks for the Meta Quest 2 with support for hand-tracking in the Unity Engine, Conducted two experimental in-person studies to compare the performance for participants using hand-tracking vs controllers, Performed statistical analysis on the data to validate hypotheses.