Carlos Pires
Software Engineer
Welcome! My name is Carlos Galinho Pires, I am a software engineer, an amateur cyclist, a multi-instrumentalist musician and a fictional author.
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C#/.NET Senior Software Engineer at Critical Manufacturing.
Software Development and Test Engineer at BIX Health, where I developed: 1) high performance cloud solutions for IoT (on Azure: Service Bus, IoT Hub, DocumentDB); 2) web apps and web APIs for FHIR (in ASP.NET MVC); 3) apps for mobile and desktop devices (in Xamarin Android and UWP). (see TV clip on Exame Informática)
Software Development and Test Engineer at Microsoft Language Development Center. At Microsoft I worked with multiple frameworks and tecnologies, mainly: 1) Windows Runtime (Windows, Windows Phone), Windows Phone (Silverlight), desktop (WPF, .NET), web (HTML5, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight) and backend services (REST, WCF, Azure); 2) software testing, test plans, test cases, reports and test execution (stress and load testing, api testing (black/white-box), performance testing, manual testing, UI automation) for web, mobile (iOS e Windows Phone), desktop and APIs; 3) database optimizations (SQL Server) for big data; 4) research and development on national and international projects (Living Usability Lab, AAL4ALL, Smartphones for Seniors, PaeLife, ACP Street Libraries). (Check out some of our work)
User Experience, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia, Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, Software Testing and Quality, Computer Graphics and Web Applications.
First lessons of organ and music theory.
1992I started my studies on official education: music theory and piano classes.
1996I joined a fanfare as a saxophonist. I also received some training on other metal instruments and drums.
2002Workshop "Popular Portuguese Musical Instruments Guided Tour"
Workshop "Wind Instruments and Percussion"
2003I finished the basic piano course with a B (15)
I started the basic saxophone course
2003I created my first book of musical arrangements to fanfares and brass bands
2003I supervised the teaching of drums and wind instruments
2004I took improv classes and played in jazz combos
2005I finished the basic saxophone course with a B (15)
2006I produced my one-man band's first album
2006Published books
Published texts in books as a co-author
Written tales
Written and produced sketches
Written screenplays
Written theater plays
I started writing my first comedy articles for a blog, under a pseudonym
2005I created an online comedy animation series, under the pseudonym
2012Creative Writing Course
Screenwriting Course (Level 1)
2013The short film "A Estória do Afonso" was selected for the exhibition in the INATEL video contest, having premiered at the cinema City Alvalade (Lisbon)
2013"A Curva Indesejada" micro-tale was published in the book "A Audiência Escreveu um Crime".
See livro 2016I submitted the short story "Cidade dos Relógios" (City of Clocks) for the 2016 Nortear Literary Prize
2016I acquired basic notions on how the dubbing process works and how to improve orality, expressiveness and interpretation
See audiobook 2017The compilation of the stories written in my literary blog lead to my first book, published by Chiado Books
Buy Book's page (January) 2018Invited by Chiado Books, my love letter entitled "Letter to an Unknown Dream" was published in the book "Três Quartos de um Amor".
Buy (February) 2018I wrote my first theater play, entitled "A 12th Degree Encounter", which I submitted to competition for the Miguel Rovisco Award of 2018/2019.
See theater plays (December) 2018Invited by Chiado Books, my love letter entitled "For you, daily muse", was published in the 2nd volume of the book "Três Quartos de um Amor".
Buy (February) 2019Invited by Chiado Books I wrote the short story "Santa's Helper", which was published in the 2nd volume of the book "Natal em Palavras".
Buy (December) 2019I wrote my second play, entitled "Once Upon a Time in a Startup", which I submitted to competition for the Miguel Rovisco Award of 2019/2020.
See theater plays (January) 2020Invited by Chiado Books I wrote the love letter "De Neusa para Duarte" - a pre-promotion for my next book - which was published in the 3rd volume of the book "Três Quartos de um Amor".
Buy (February) 2020My literary adventure continues with the publication of my 2nd book, published by Chiado Books.
Buy Book's page (April) 2020Invited by Chiado Books, I wrote a small memoir about the confinement that was published in the book "Quarentena - Memórias de um país confinado - Portugal".
Buy (August) 2020I started a small and new blog inspired by the homonymous tale published in the 2nd volume of the "De Conto a Romance" collection.
See (October) 2020I wrote my third play, entitled "After Once Upon a Time", which I submitted to competition for the Miguel Rovisco Award of 2020/2021.
See theater plays (January) 2021Invited by the City of Guarda, I wrote the short story "Snow Day" for the collection "Rua do Encontro – Ficções da Guarda" published by Âncora Editora.
Buy (May) 2021I wrote the short story "Grandson for a Moment", which was accepted and published in the competition's book ("Conexões").
(August) 2021I wrote a feature film based on my tale "The Scribes of Destiny" for this internacional competition.
FilmFreeway (December) 2021I wrote a mini-text for this Flash-Fiction contest.
(Março) 2022My collection "De Conto a Romance" (From Tale to Novel) receives its 3rd volume, published by Primeiro Capítulo.
Buy Book's page (April) 2022I wrote a pilot based on my tale "The Beginning of Times" for this internacional competition.
FilmFreeway (June) 2022I wrote a feature based on my tale "Neusa".
FilmFreeway (Setembro) 2022I wrote a feature based on my tale "Star Soldier" which was placed as quarter-finalist in "Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Summer 2023" and "Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards 2023".
FilmFreeway (December) 2022I wrote an original short which was placed as quarterfinalist in "SWN Short Film Screenplay Competition Winter 2022".
FilmFreeway (Janeiro) 2023I wrote a feature based on my tale "Soul" which was placed as quarter-finalist in "Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Summer 2023".
FilmFreeway (March) 2023I wrote a feature based on my tale "Obsessed" which was placed as semi-finalist in "Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition 2023".
FilmFreeway (May) 2023My original short "Boycotted by Prejudice" was placed as finalist in "SWN Short Film Screenplay Competition Autumn 2023", semi-finalist in "Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition 2023" and quarter-finalist in "Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 9"
FilmFreeway (July) 2023I wrote a TV pilot in Portuguese based on my tale "O Vigilante".
FilmFreeway (July) 2023I wrote a feature based on my tale "Inferno", which was semifinalist in "Emerging Screenwriters Screenplay Competition 2024", "Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Fall 2023" and "Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 9", and Official Selection of "Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival 2024".
FilmFreeway (October) 2023I wrote a feature based on my tale "As Crónicas do Capitão Besteira", which was quarterfinalist in "Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition 2024.
FilmFreeway (December) 2023Invited by Chiado Books, my love letter entitled "Broken Hearts" was published in the anthology "Três Quartos de um Amor IV".
Buy (February) 2024I wrote a feature based on my tale "Êxodo" to submit to competitions and lists, which was quarterfinalist in "Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Spring 2024".
FilmFreeway (May) 2024My original short "Shelpek Pizza", co-written with Dinara Tussupkaliyeva, was submitted to competitions and lists.
FilmFreeway (July) 2024Showrun a cartoon comedy TV series?
Dubbing a movie?
Future