I build experiencesthat feel alive.

Meet me and my sidekick, Sunny. Together we ship products that solve real problems — and a few that just blow your mind.

About me

My first try at building web pages was back in 2013, when my passion for old-school MMORPGs made me want to replicate those sites that felt like pure magic.

Fast-forward to today: I've had the pleasure of building web and mobile applications for a variety of industries, from emerging startups to huge corporations in the finance and beverage segments.

These days, the way I work with software has shifted a bit: I think product first, dig deeper into design every year, and still chase what I found in 2013 — only now from the other side of the screen.

When I'm not climbing the web-dev skill tree, I'm climbing mountains and chasing waterfalls with my doggo, or just home playing games.

Selected Work

I've always loved building things that help people. My first real projects, back in college, were apps wired to the physical world: beacon-guided indoor navigation for visually impaired students, and Arduino workshops that taught electromagnetism to high schoolers. Helping people learn and find their way is where I started.

I learn by building. So I spent six years shipping for banks, payment rails, and licensing platforms for music, film, and imagery, collecting everything those worlds could teach me.

Now it all connects: I build products, not just software. Design and product thinking lead, and that's where I'm learning and growing the most these days.

Spec-driven, not vibes.

I own the architecture and the plan, then build alongside AI agents, holding the line on what matters: performance, scalability, security, the feel. Here's what the climb looks like so far:

Founder · launching October 2026

Fluentei — Japanese through the songs you sing

fluentei.com.br ↗

Understand the Japanese songs you sing. Tap any word in the lyrics for its meaning, translation and context.

Songs come with furigana and romaji; graded readings come narrated, lighting up word by word. Review then brings back the words you met there, spaced over time, one song or reading at a time. Games keep the habit: Kyogi Karuta for kana and vocabulary (plus a 20-poem mode), a pixel RPG for kana, and Nekomachi, a cat neighbourhood your reviews keep fed. And Ginga, the astronaut mascot, chats with you in Japanese at your level, with furigana and replies you can tap.

On Fluentei I own everything: product, design and code. It runs on Cloudflare Workers, with PostgreSQL on Neon and payments through Stripe. SudachiPy analyses the Japanese, so the grammar comes from a parser, not from a model's guess. AI explains and chats, inside limits I set. Before opening it, I load-tested the whole thing to hold the launch.

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Founding engineer · 2025 — now

Venturança — an education ecosystem, end to end

venturanca.com ↗

Science fairs become investment rounds. Grades become venturas. Students become founders.

Grades earn venturas, the platform's own currency. Students invest them in a simulated market with real assets and real prices, gold to Dogecoin, and in each other's science-fair projects. Effort becomes capital, and learning what to do with it is the point.

Venturança demanded the rest of the stack from me. After years mastering the front of products, I now own the API, the database, the cloud, the deploys. My product partner shapes what we build; I make it real. I learn the way I always have: by shipping.

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App Store + Google Play · live at zuppz.app

Zuppz — a life planner for couples

zuppz.app ↗

Life as a couple, organized in three to five minutes a day.

Zuppz keeps a couple's life in one place: shared habits with streaks and a sync score, lists, a journal, the memories you both want to keep. Planito and Aura, the app's own sidekick couple of red pandas, tell you how the two of you are really doing, and collectible cards turn consistency into a collection.

Zuppz is the one I own end to end on a new platform. It taught me to do Expo and React Native properly, to own the database integrations, to ship through two app stores. Different muscles, same bar: it has to feel alive.

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Why work with me

I thrive in the unknown

New stack, new platform, new problem: I chase whatever the best experience needs. Database schema in the morning, animation curves after lunch.

Numbers, not vibes

I aim my work at a metric and move it. Team efficiency, analyst throughput, checkout conversion: the track record one scroll below carries the numbers.

I build like an owner

Venturança taught me to think past the ticket: scope what matters, ship it, listen, iterate. Building it end to end as founding engineer rewired how I treat every product I touch.

Feel is a feature

I breathe user experience: the friction users can't name, the details they only feel. I build with a designer's eye, and this page is that eye at work.

Teams level up around me

I love helping people grow: pair programming, mentoring sessions, workshops that outlive the sprint. If your company builds talent, I'll be one of the builders.

Experience

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2025 — now
Venturança
Founding engineer
An education platform built end to end: four frontends, one API, the cloud underneath.
2022 — now
FM — Musicbed · Filmsupply · Stills
Senior Software Engineer, Front-End Applications
Building the audio player, licensing and checkout flows, and design systems serving world-class creators.
2022
Trustly
Frontend Engineer
Embedding bank-to-bank payments into merchant checkouts across the US, Canada and Europe.
2021 — 2022
XP Inc
Frontend Developer
Performance and UX work across the fixed-income backoffice: brokers analyzing 10% more of 200,000+ daily transactions.
2019 — 2021
BEES · AB InBev
Frontend Developer
Led a three-engineer team building backoffice portals that raised daily operational efficiency by 30%.
2019
SUGEE Kansai — Osaka, Japan
Back-End Developer Intern
First experience abroad, on exchange: learned the ropes of product teamwork implementing the company's platform.
the roots
Unicamp
Telecommunications Engineering · PIBITI research
Built indoor navigation for visually impaired students; taught electromagnetism to high schoolers with Arduino learning tools.