I build and guide products from 0 → 1 into steady revenue.
Hands-on product engineer and builder. Founding engineer & CTO at Fokvs. I design, code, and run the stack—backend, infra, AI, web, mobile—with a focus on sustainable growth and reliability.
- Open to senior/staff+ or founding roles where shipping and coaching both matter.
- Comfortable owning architecture, delivery, and operations end-to-end to keep momentum.
- Track record: rebuilt Fokvs, cut infra spend 85%, and grew to 100K+ users and 300+ subscribers.
- Can step in as a Staff+ IC to unblock delivery while keeping standards clear and practical.
- Helps reduce cross-team dependencies and keeps the roadmap moving without drama.
- Builds and runs the product loop: infra, backend, AI, web/mobile, analytics, and GTM plumbing.
- Bias to ship: migrate, stabilize, and monetize quickly with sensible instrumentation and experiments.
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Impact by Numbers
Users Scaled
From 1K to 100K+ active users
Active Subscribers
Grew from 0 to 300+ paying customers
Infra Cost Reduction
Cut infrastructure costs by 85%
Churn Reduction
Reduced from 50% to 10%
AI Scans Processed
Question Scan feature used by 20K+ students
Documents Processed
Processed for search and recommendations
Experience
Fokvs (EdTech SaaS)
- Rebuilt the platform from a fragmented prototype into a unified NestJS + Postgres system, cutting infra cost 85% and enabling rapid product iteration.
- Owned backend, infra, mobile, web, AI, analytics, and growth — effectively a full-stack engineering org of one.
- Scaled product from 1K to 100K+ users; implemented reliability, observability, and performance foundations.
- Shipped AI features (Question Scan, Flashcards) used by 20K+ students; built OCR + LLM pipelines and moderation workflows; processed 30K+ scans.
- Designed and built the payments engine (PIX + gateways) with retries, idempotency, attribution, and entitlements.
- Built document-processing pipeline for 18K+ materials (Gemini OCR + OpenAI embeddings + pgvector); created Bedrock + S3 vector variant powering search, retrieval, and recommendations.
- Grew subscriptions 0 to 300+ and reduced churn 50% to 10% by instrumenting analytics, funnels, and experiments.
- Led AWS migration (ECS, RDS, Redis, CloudFront, VPC/Terraform) with zero downtime; improved reliability and reduced overhead.
- Built data lake (S3 + Glue + Athena) supporting attribution, funnels, A/B tests, and internal reporting.
- Hired and mentored engineering team; set direction for architecture, QA, CI/CD, and product-engineering processes.
Education & Background
UFRGS - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
2017 - 2024Full graduation in Computer Science. Focused on entrepreneurship and full-stack development throughout the program. During the pandemic, took multiple courses to acquire skills needed to build products from scratch. Did not pursue traditional internships, instead focused full-time on Fokvs for 3 years, learning and building extensively.
Background: Graduated high school in 2012 from Colégio Sinodal Barão do Rio Branco in Cachoeira do Sul. Always dreamed of entrepreneurship. During the pandemic, took courses on blockchain, web development, product management, and cloud computing to build the skills needed to create something from scratch.
Research Experience
- Scientific Initiation: Parallel and distributed processing group. Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous architectures using StarPU library for CPU/GPU parallel processing
- Entrepreneurial Initiation: Development of pharmacy delivery application
- TCC (Final Project): Business Process Management (BPM) research on LLM efficiency for generating BPMN business process descriptions compared to traditional NLP methods
Other Experiences
- 2012: Graduated high school from Colégio Sinodal Barão do Rio Branco in Cachoeira do Sul
- 2013: Rotary Youth Exchange Program - One year living in Sweden as exchange student. This experience contributed to near-fluent Swedish language skills.
- 2015: Two semesters of Biology at UFRGS before switching to Computer Science. This exploration period helped clarify career direction.
- Entrepreneurship Marathon (SEDETEC UFRGS): Decoreba project - Duolingo for college entrance exams. 2nd place. Developed entire app, web, and backend. Despite the recognition, the project was never launched due to inexperience, but it was valuable learning that prepared for Fokvs.
Walkthroughs of systems I architected and shipped end-to-end, with metrics and demos.
Deep dive into how I rebuilt Fokvs, scaled it, and organized the team.
Backend, infra, AI, payments, data, and leadership capabilities with certs and language proficiency.
Music, endurance sports, and habits that translate into resilience at work.