Rio de Janeiro  ·  Porto  ·  Waterloo

Engineer. Builder. Global.

"From nuclear power plant HMIs in Brazil to ML shipping models for global e-commerce — a decade of building things that matter."

Sr. Software Engineer with roots in electronics and IoT, now leading ML initiatives and cloud architecture across 5 e-commerce brands from Waterloo, Canada. M.Eng Industrial Electronics, AWS Certified, 5× Rock Star rated.

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🇧🇷2013
🇵🇹2016
🇧🇷2019
🇵🇹2019
🇨🇦2021 – now
Rio de Janeiro Porto Waterloo
10+
years building
$2.13M Topline Revenue Impact
$252K/yr Annual Cost Eliminated
12 wk/qtr QA Time Saved via AI
5× Rock Star Performance Reviews
01

The Journey

🇨🇦
Sep 2023
Present
Waterloo
CSC-Generation NOW
Sr. Software Engineer
  • Architected ElasticSearch/OpenSearch engine replacing Algolia — validated in A/B tests $252K/yr saved
  • Built AI-powered QA automation platform using headless Chrome + LLMs 12 work-weeks/qtr saved
  • AWS SageMaker dynamic shipping pricing model $1.24M GM · +4% CVR
  • CDN edge SSR + product recommendations $2.13M topline
  • Unified identity and authentication infrastructure across 5 e-commerce brands serving millions of North American shoppers
  • Grew engineering talent to independent ownership of production services, raising team velocity in a high-stakes multi-brand environment
🇨🇦
Jan 2021
Sep 2023
Waterloo
CSC-Generation
Software Engineer
  • Zero-downtime Braintree→Stripe migration for 39K customer wallets Delivered early
  • Apple Pay + PayPal integration on PDP, Mini Cart, Cart +14% CVR
  • PLP performance optimization 100/100 Lighthouse
  • Identified and remediated a critical PII exposure in the production OAuth system, preventing potential data breach across all authenticated user sessions
  • Shipping cache failure handling reducing peak requests 70% reduction
  • Led TypeScript migration of the shared component library, enabling tree-shakeable partial imports and reducing bundle size across all 5 brand storefronts
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Sep 2019
Dec 2020
Canada
Microsys Technologies
Electronics Design Engineer
  • Embedded software for Camera Positioning Systems 1mm precision
  • Automated hardware integrity tests — Python + Robot Framework
  • Gas chamber HMI using RTU Modbus / RS232 / RS485
  • Safety-critical PLC ladder logic maintenance
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Sep 2018
Jun 2019
Bragança
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
M.Eng Industrial Electronic Engineering
  • Thesis: Indoor location system — cloud, Android app, REST API, NoSQL, ML clustering
  • Ranking algorithm using 2.4GHz RSSI + magnetic field distortion
🇧🇷
Nov 2017
Jan 2019
Rio de Janeiro
Phygitall IoT Solutions
Applications Developer Intern
  • Brazilian Navy LoRaWAN fleet tracking 154,441 mi² · 20 vessels
  • Founded AWS infrastructure (IAM, EC2, NGINX) + React/Redux platform
  • Embraer indoor location via WiFi fingerprinting 10m precision
🇧🇷
Nov 2016
Nov 2017
Angra dos Reis
Eletronuclear / Eletrobras
Instrumentation & Control Intern
  • HMI simulation room for Angra 3 nuclear power plant per Human Factors Engineering standards
  • Signal analysis platform for Angra 2 — Qt UNIX application
02

The Toolbox

Hardware & Embedded
Industrial · IoT · Protocols
LoRaWAN Modbus RTU RS232 / RS485 CAN Bus PLC Ladder Arduino Qt (UNIX) HMI Dev Robot Framework C / C++ Java Python
Software & Cloud
Full-Stack · AWS · AI/ML
TypeScript React Next.js Node.js AWS SageMaker ElasticSearch DynamoDB Lambda LLMs A/B Testing REST / GraphQL CI/CD PostgreSQL
03

Selected Work

Custom ElasticSearch Faceting Engine
Designed and led migration from Algolia to a custom-built ranking and faceting engine powering all Product Listing Pages, rigorously validated through A/B testing.
Replaced $260K/year contract with $8K/year solution — outperformed Algolia in head-to-head tests
2023 – 2025  ·  TypeScript · ElasticSearch · AWS
AI-Powered QA Automation Platform
Headless Chrome + LLM pipeline automating vendor catalog validation, eliminating manual QA from the Buying team's weekly workflow entirely.
12 work-weeks saved per quarter — catalog accuracy measurably improved
2024 – 2025  ·  LLMs · Node.js · Headless Chrome
AWS SageMaker Shipping Pricing Model
End-to-end ML model for dynamic shipping price optimization. Balances margin control with competitive customer pricing for One Kings Lane.
$1.24M gross margin boost · +20% AOV · +4% conversion rate
2024 – 2025  ·  SageMaker · Python · DynamoDB
Brazilian Navy LoRaWAN Fleet Tracking
Designed and deployed an on-premise LoRaWAN network for the Brazilian Navy, integrating real-time geolocation with private military APIs for 20 vessels.
154,441 mi² national-scale coverage — operational for active military fleet
2017 – 2018  ·  LoRaWAN · Node.js · AWS · React
04

Education & Credentials

🇵🇹
M.Eng — Industrial Electronic Engineering
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Sep 2018 – Jun 2019
Thesis: Indoor location ML clustering using WiFi RSSI + magnetic field distortion
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B.Eng — Electronics Engineering
CEFET-RJ · Rio de Janeiro
Aug 2013 – Jun 2019
Erasmus @ ISEP Porto (2016) · Power electronics research · Solar cell research
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AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services
2024
Cloud architecture, serverless, IAM, DynamoDB, deployment automation
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Security Engineer Nanodegree
Udacity · Online
2021
Vulnerability detection, resilient systems, web penetration testing