[ journey ]
Mobile and web internships (UFPR, Corpo de Bombeiros PR) then agency work — PHP, WordPress, Node.js, React Native for real clients.
Led a small team at Mentores Digital: custom client platforms, APIs (Express/Adonis), React & React Native apps, ERP integrations.
Came in as a Software Engineer at one of Brazil’s largest edtechs — frontend platform work across pedagogical products.
Stepped up to Staff: microfrontend architecture with Module Federation, design-system governance, and DX across squads.
Principal Engineer of AI at Arco. Worked on the AI essay-correction platform for ENEM, including the core pipeline and computer vision for handwritten essays.
CTO at Applause.team, co-founder at MokLabs, founding team at Lugui.ai, and AI Research Fellow at CEIA (UFG). Building products and using applied AI across these contexts.
[ philosophy ]
Systems should be predictable, not impressive.
Lightweight structures (RFCs, ADRs) that prevent chaos without bureaucracy.
Remove friction and teams move faster with higher quality.
Observability, evaluation, datasets, and metrics; not magic.
Canonical, versioned, discoverable.
Deep enough to be correct, simple enough to be maintainable.
[ writing ]
Context engineering — calibrating the ideal window to cut noise and hallucination.
2025 · Applied AITrading the uncertainty of language for the guarantees of automata to scale AI products.
2025 · AI StrategyWhy AI still fails at complex problems, what the benchmarks really show, and how to adopt strategically.
2023 · ArchitectureEssential strategies for a consistent, integrated UX across federated microfrontends.