Now
What I'm focused on right now.
Work
Frontend engineer on the Sync team at Automatiq. The part I care about most is the product side: analytics, NPS, getting close to users, turning data into decisions. AI is part of the daily flow now, and I document everything I touch. The direction I'm heading is Product Engineer with a focus on performance and data-heavy interfaces.
Writing
Inner Commit on Substack. I started years ago in Portuguese, then pivoted to English-only. Substack is where I get close to people; the site is for essays, announcements, and documentation. The gravity is engineering: performance, data, frontend craft. Career and lessons learned show up too, but the technical work leads.
Building
WheyDev is my side project, built in my free time. The idea is a one-engineer studio for small, focused software products shipped with production discipline. The name plays on "whey" (protein, strength, no fluff) and "dev". Several apps are live already, with more in the pipeline. Open source belongs here too.
Reading
Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis (a coworker recommended it). I've been teaching myself English since 2016 and still want sharper vocabulary and pronunciation. Also working through The Pragmatic Programmer.
Studying
AI and frontend courses on Master.dev. That's my main classroom right now.
Training
Tennis twice a week, completely new to me, first-ever class on June 3. Gym three or four days, and walking as many days as I can manage.
Home
Living in Londrina, in the south of Brazil, with my wife Natalia. We recently welcomed a Boston Terrier named Ashley to the house. She gets a line on this page because she's earned it.
Watching
Soccer is the first love, Palmeiras here in Brazil. On the NBA side, it's the Heat. It clicked in 2025, when I caught a live game in Miami with my then-fiancée (now wife). The culture, the city, and honestly — I just love Miami. For the NFL, the Jets kind of chose me. I've always been drawn to them somehow, whether it's the NYC thing, the green like Palmeiras, the branding, or a fanbase that never gives up.