Manuel Garnel
About Manuel Garnel
Title
Manuel Garnel holds the position of QA Engineer at Talkdesk.
Previous Employment
Manuel Garnel has a diverse professional background, having worked as a QA Engineer at AFFINITY Portugal from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, he served as a Junior Consultant Engineer at Altran in Porto from 2017 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he held teaching positions at the Ministério da Educação in Lisboa for 11 months from 2016 to 2017 and in Portugal for 14 years from 2002 to 2016.
Education and Expertise
Manuel Garnel studied at ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, where he pursued Engenharia Informática. He achieved Terceiro ano Engenharia Informática, with only two subjects and an internship remaining as of September 2020. He also studied Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores at the same institute, from 2013 to 2015, achieving 13 valores. Additionally, he attended Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, where he specialized in Química and Física, achieving 13 valores in Física. Garnel also completed the Academia de formação at Altran.
Technical Projects
During his time at ISEP, Manuel Garnel developed several technical projects. In his third year, he worked on a sensor control project which involved the preparation of printed circuit boards (PCB) and programming a micro-controller ATtiny 441. He also developed an irrigation system project using Arduino and humidity sensors, incorporating signal conditioning and A/D conversion. In his second year, Garnel gained expertise in programming micro-controllers using the C language for various applications like motor control, sensors, and digital displays. Additionally, he acquired knowledge in client-server programming using the C language for sockets and forks, and developed skills in scheduling micro-controllers (atmega 88) to meet specific requirements such as PWM in the Systems Laboratory course.