Professional summary
Applied AI Engineer and Senior Full-Stack Developer with 8+ years of experience building and operating scalable, high-traffic systems across cloud environments (AWS, GCP). Specialised in deploying production-grade LLM-powered agentic platforms and modernising legacy microservices architectures to drive business efficiency.
Strong track record in the full software lifecycle — from technical scoping and solution architecture to deployment and post-implementation iteration. Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into high-performance technical solutions, with a deep focus on cloud-native patterns, data pipelines, and MLOps.
Barcelona-based, experienced in multi-cultural and remote-first engineering teams. 13 peer-reviewed publications in distributed systems and cloud computing; passionate about open source and AI-driven automation.
Professional experience
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Founder & Lead Applied AI Engineer
CurrentCapellaris AI (SaaS, self-funded)
March 2025 — Present
- Designed, built and operate a production-grade, LLM-agnostic multi-tenant SaaS platform end-to-end — covering marketing, finance and legal automation use cases for enterprise customers.
- Full-stack delivery: Python/FastAPI backend, Node.js middleware layer, React front-end, PostgreSQL + pgvector, Redis, Supabase, Cloudflare WAF; GCP infrastructure (CloudRun, Firebase); OAuth 2.0, IAM, secrets management and tenant isolation.
- Built a reusable agent-orchestration layer (CrewAI + MCP) with embeddings, hybrid search (pgvector + BM25), chunking, reranking and tool-calling; integrated Anthropic Claude, OpenAI and Gemini APIs behind a unified multi-LLM abstraction.
- Implemented full MLOps lifecycle: prompt versioning, model evaluation, observability (Cloud Logging) and continuous delivery (GitLab CI/CD).
- Pilot enterprise customer live in production; direct technical account management — requirement scoping, integration support and product iteration based on customer feedback.
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Senior Software Engineer – Platform & Data APIs
CurrentMercado Livre (e-commerce, logistics)
August 2025 — Present
- Design, build and operate internal platform APIs for large-scale logistics operations serving millions of daily transactions; cross-functional Scrum team of 7, on-call rotation, incident management and post-mortems.
- Develop Python (FastAPI) and Go services; contribute to React-based internal tooling; own full production lifecycle on containerised multi-cloud infrastructure (Docker, AWS/GCP via MELI’s internal Fury platform).
- Integrate Claude and OpenAI APIs into production workflows as autonomous decision-support agents for logistics capacity planning; mentor team members on AI integration patterns and backend best practices.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with automated testing, observability (structured logging, metrics, alerting) and progressive rollout strategies.
- Design ETL pipelines (Python/Pandas/Polars on BigQuery) feeding demand forecasting and capacity planning simulators used by commercial and operations teams for high-volume, data-driven decision-support.
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Senior Full Stack / Platform Engineer
Buscaônibus / DeÔnibus / Travelier (travel, meta-search)
April 2021 — August 2025
- Primary owner of a high-traffic travel search and ticketing platform processing millions of passenger queries: design, development, maintenance and on-call support.
- Operated and monetised passenger demand and pricing data pipelines — aggregating real-time availability, route coverage and fare data across hundreds of bus operators to power commercial analytics and revenue optimisation.
- Led full platform modernisation: Python 2.7/App Engine to Python 3.12/FastAPI/CloudRun (Docker), cutting average API latency by 25% and GCP infrastructure cost by 40%; directly improved search response quality and conversion.
- Designed and shipped a route intelligence and demand analytics layer (BigQuery + Looker Studio) used by business stakeholders to evaluate route performance, passenger volume trends and pricing opportunities.
- Built Gemini-based AI agents for internal operations and demand-signal processing via reusable backend APIs.
- Mentored junior engineers on Python best practices, API design and cloud-native deployment.
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Software Engineer – Integrations & CI/CD
Portobello Group (retail, ERP, CRM, data)
December 2019 — April 2021
- Built Python/Django backend integrations between Salesforce, on-prem ERPs and downstream microservices; designed data pipelines for the commercial analytics stack.
- Operated Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines (Rancher + Jenkins) with Docker; maintained MSSQL Server (job scheduling, data pipeline architecture).
- Led technical design and stakeholder support for company-wide Salesforce rollout; developed a full financial simulator embedded in Salesforce with a Python backend.
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Software Developer – Automation & Cloud
Stormtech (consumer loans, regulated)
August 2018 — November 2019
- Developed Python automations and data pipeline integrations with a PHP monolith in a regulated financial environment.
- Built and operated an AWS-native platform (EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, RDS-MySQL, Route53); tracked and resolved production incidents in a fast-paced support context.
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Software Developer – IoT & Automation
ReciclaComigo (ESG, waste management startup)
July 2016 — February 2018
- Designed, prototyped and developed a Reverse Vending Machine using MQTT, AWS IoT Core, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Computer Vision (OpenCV) and Python.
- Connected to an AWS architecture (EC2, Lambda, RDS-MySQL) to manage machine operations and collect data from users and collectors.
- Innovation, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, UX, user research, business model generation, MVP, pitching and acceleration programs.
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Research & Development
UDESC: Colmeia & LabP2D (research)
March 2012 — March 2017
- Developed energy monitoring solutions for data centers (GreenHop project).
- Created algorithms for virtual machine consolidation (CHAVE project).
- Published 13 peer-reviewed research papers in international conferences.
Skills
AI / LLM Engineering
Back-end & APIs
Front-end
Databases & Storage
Cloud & Infrastructure
CI/CD & Observability
Data & Analytics
Customer-Facing
Languages & certifications
Languages
- Portuguese Native
- English Proficient
- French Basic
- Spanish Basic
Certifications
AWS Technical Essentials
Amazon Web Services
São Paulo, SP — 2017
Salesforce Platform Developer I
Salesforce Bootcamp
2021
Education
Master’s Degree in Applied Computing
Santa Catarina State University (UDESC)
2016 — 2018
Focus: cloud computing, virtualisation and energy efficiency.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Santa Catarina State University (UDESC)
2011 — 2016
Focus: software engineering and system development.
Teaching & research projects
UDESC, 2013–2016 · volunteer
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Programming with Open Source Hardware — Arduino in C++
UDESC — Colmeia & LabP2D
2013 – 2016
- Taught introductory and advanced Arduino programming in C++ to undergraduate students.
- Covered embedded systems concepts, sensor integration, and hardware automation.
- Applied in research projects such as GreenHop (data center environmental monitoring).
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Version Control with Git
UDESC — Colmeia & LabP2D
2013 – 2016
- Taught Git fundamentals and collaborative workflows to research lab members.
- Topics included branching strategies, pull requests, and open source contribution practices.
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Scientific Document Preparation with LaTeX
UDESC — Colmeia & LabP2D
2013 – 2016
- Instructed students on LaTeX typesetting for academic papers, theses, and conference submissions.
- Covered BibTeX references, mathematical notation, and IEEE/ACM formatting templates.
All publications
Conference papers 13
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Automação climática em sala de servidores utilizando hardware livre
Climate automation in a server room using open hardware
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Monitoramento Ambiental Open Source para Data Center
Open source environmental monitoring for data centers
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Sensoriamento em sala de servidores baseado em software e hardware livres
Server-room sensing based on free software and open hardware
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Automação climática em sala de servidores utilizando hardware livre
Climate automation in a server room using open hardware
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Sensoriamento climático em sala de servidores utilizando soluções de software e hardware livre
Climate sensing in a server room using free software and open hardware
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GreenHop: Open source PUE continuous monitoring for small and medium data centers
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Automação climática em sala de servidores utilizando hardware livre
Climate automation in a server room using open hardware
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GreenHop: Environmental and power monitoring small size data centers
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GreenHop: Open source environmental monitoring for small and medium data centers
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Sensoriamento em sala de servidores baseado em software e hardware livres
Server-room sensing based on free software and open hardware
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Sensoriamento e automação climática em sala de servidores utilizando software e hardware livre
Climate sensing and automation in a server room using free software and open hardware
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Uma Proposta de Orquestração de Nuvem Computacional Baseada em Consolidação, Elasticidade e Disponibilidade
A cloud orchestration proposal based on consolidation, elasticity and availability
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MeHarCEn: A Method of Harmonizing Energy Consumption in Data Centers
Research papers 8
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Análise envoltória de dados para eficiência energética e termal em processadores de alto desempenho
Data envelopment analysis for energy and thermal efficiency in high-performance processors
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Internet of Things: Survey About Management Solutions
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Problema Bin Packing com Abordagem Heurística First Fit Decreasing
The bin packing problem with a first fit decreasing heuristic
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Análise da consolidação de máquinas virtuais nos equipamentos de rede
Analysis of virtual machine consolidation on network equipment
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Consolidação de máquinas virtuais com alta disponibilidade: uma revisão bibliográfica sistemática
Virtual machine consolidation with high availability: a systematic literature review
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Uma ferramenta para análise do impacto da migração de máquinas virtuais
A tool for analysing the impact of virtual machine migration
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CHAVE: Consolidation with High Availability on Virtualized Environments
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Presentation — CHAVE: Consolidation with High Availability on Virtualized Environments
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