I am a software engineer, currently working on the Atlas High Level Trigger (HLT) experiment, in cooperation with the Data Acquisition (DAQ) community. I had already worked in the HLT/DAQ already for two years, between 2008 and 2010, within the scope of a national Portuguese scholarship. Before that, I obtained my MSc(Eng) from the University of Lisbon, with a research project on the areas of computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and artificial humans and environments. In the period of 2010-2012 I worked at Nagravision, a company in Lausanne, at the digital TV business. I now have a CERN fellowship which started at 2012 and I am currently involved in the evolution of the original two-stage HLT into a dynamic single-stage HLT. I also work on the design and implementation of new HLT code to harness the computing power of current and upcoming multi- and many-core CPUs.