M.Sc. Applied Computer Science (Angewandte Informatik)since 04/2025
Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany
Allan Valim Ribeiro da Fonseca
Fulda, Germany · allanvalin@yahoo.com.br · github.com/allan-valin · Academic CV
Education
B.Sc. Applied Computer Science (Angewandte Informatik)10/2017 – 04/2025
Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Fulda, Germany
Moved to Germany09/2017
B.A. in Linguistics, Portuguese and Latin (Bacharel em Letras)02/2008 – 06/2014
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil
High school diploma (comparable to the Abitur)02/2003 – 12/2005
Instituto de Educação do Paraná (IEPPEP), Curitiba, Brazil
Work experience
Working student, IT Service Desk03/2022 – 03/2026
EDAG Engineering Group AG, Fulda, Germany
- Handling leased devices: collecting, unpacking and sorting them, contacting users, answering their questions
- Answering support tickets
Working student, IT06/2020 – 09/2020
OB//CC GmbH & Co. KG, Fulda, Germany
- Market research for taking a news-in-education app for German schools abroad: analysed how the school systems of all Latin American countries work
- Built a database of all schools in Germany (more than 60,000), found, listed and categorised them
Working student, IT08/2019 – 06/2020
UTH GmbH, Fulda, Germany
- Operating system setup when devices were replaced
- Updating the company website
- Translating documents and the website
Copy editor04/2017 – 07/2017
Grupo Opus, Curitiba, Brazil
Copy editor08/2015 – 11/2016
CCZ Comunicação, Curitiba, Brazil
Online editor12/2008 – 07/2015
Grupo NZN, Curitiba, Brazil: Baixaki, TecMundo and Baixaki Jogos (later TecMundo Jogos, now Voxel)
- Testing software and writing reviews for the website
- Playing video games and writing reviews
- Researching sources and writing news articles
- More than 600 bylined articles on TecMundo, 2008–2015 (author page, archived 2015)
Side jobs
Warehouse logistics06/2021 – 03/2022
JOB AG, Fulda, Germany
Parquet sorting07/2019 – 09/2019
Hillert und Krack, Fulda, Germany
Cloakroom staff12/2017 – 07/2019
Musikpark, Fulda, Germany
Receptionist and cashier02/2006 – 11/2006
G7 Internetcafé, Curitiba, Brazil
Gym receptionist01/2005 – 12/2005
Academia H2O, Curitiba, Brazil
Skills
| Languages | Portuguese (native), German (very good, spoken and written, DSH-2), English (very good, spoken and written, C1: IELTS, TOEFL), French (good, spoken) |
| Programming | Python; working knowledge of Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript; basic Haskell, Dart/Flutter |
| Data and ML | TensorFlow/Keras, PyTorch (basic), NumPy, Matplotlib, Jupyter; local LLMs (Ollama); speech tools (Whisper, Vosk, Piper) |
| IT, cloud and monitoring | Linux, Git, Docker, LaTeX, MS Office; OpenStack, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS (Lambda, boto3) at lab level; Kafka, Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, Containerlab |
| AI-assisted development | Building apps by directing AI coding agents (Claude): specification, testing and review; Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and web (Svelte) projects |
| Robotics, games and media | ROS 2 (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox), Gazebo; Unity, Unreal Engine 5, OpenGL, Meta Quest VR; Blender, Pure Data, Arduino |