About

Self-taught. Brazilian. Building from the inside out.

I came from outside the tech bubble.

No Silicon Valley origin story, just a secondhand MacBook, a lot of mistakes, and a stubborn will to keep going.

In 2018 I got to visit Silicon Valley while helping at a tech event. First time I'd ever left Brazil, and seeing how the industry worked up close stuck with me. I went back home and kept building.

My career started in Brazil, but the way I think about the work was always global. I'm a frontend engineer, and lately I've been going deeper into the part I care about most: performance and data-heavy interfaces. Making things fast, making data usable, shipping with the kind of discipline that holds up in production. The direction I'm heading is Product Engineer, where the technical work meets real product decisions.

This is my inner commit: to keep building a life that makes sense, from the inside out.

The three things

The Craft Performance

Data-heavy interfaces, and the work of writing code well. How to make things fast, how to turn messy data into something people can actually use, and what I learn building day after day.

The Product Side

Analytics, NPS, getting close to users, turning data into decisions. The shift I'm making from executing frontend tickets to thinking like a product engineer: not just how to build, but what to build and why.

Inner Commit

The quiet work behind the visible career. The small disciplines that compound, the consistency nobody sees, the slow climb from good to genuinely sharp.

Read the long version

I'm from Lorena, a small city in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

I've been curious about computers since I was a kid. At 17, I earned a technical certificate in computing. Three years later, I enrolled in a public college to study Information Technology Management.

At that point, we still didn't have a computer at home. My first one came through a local NGO, an old and simple PC from a City Hall project. Years later, I used my savings to buy a used MacBook Air. That's when I fell in love with Apple and decided I wanted to learn how to code. I considered Swift and Objective-C, but after some research, I chose web development and found my place in front-end.

In 2015, I completed a postgrad certificate in Web Application Development. That's when I consider my real career to have started, even though I barely knew how to program at the time.

Most of what I truly learned came through doing: working on real projects, attending events, studying on my own, and asking more experienced developers the right questions. I built my skills outside the classroom, not in it.

Over the next five years, everything changed:

  • I started at a small marketing agency in my hometown, working with design and WordPress.
  • I dropped everything to move to São Paulo and work at StartSe, an education startup, building basic landing pages with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap.
  • I worked across departments (sales, marketing, design, and video editing) until I eventually led a squad and became a partner in the company.
  • I helped build a custom online events platform using React and Next.js, which became critical during the pandemic when in-person events shut down.
  • I taught myself English from scratch through online courses and 500+ hours on Cambly.
  • I attended over 60 tech events and meetups in Brazil and built meaningful connections in the dev community.

In 2022, I joined Automatiq, a U.S.-based company in New York, where I work remotely as a developer. We build automation tools for ticket brokers, covering pricing, invoicing, and more across multiple vendors.

That same year, I also became responsible for the entire digital infrastructure of Padre Fábio de Melo, one of the most followed Catholic figures in the world, with +45 million followers across platforms. I built his official website and manage his presence across YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music.

Today, I'm focused on what I care about most in engineering: performance and data-heavy interfaces. Making software fast, making data usable, building with production discipline. The direction I'm heading is Product Engineer, where technical depth meets real product decisions.

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