about me

i've been building things on the internet since i was 9. started with blogspot templates, moved to minecraft servers, then startups. now i'm cpto at ficpass.

how i work

  • brutal honesty, both ways
  • poc heavy — not afraid to try things
  • look for asymmetric risk/reward opportunities
  • calculate opportunity cost before committing
  • use heuristics wisely to make decisions fast
  • extreme ownership, end to end
  • never regretted documenting a process
  • ship fast

timeline

  • 2008first code — blogspot templates, table layouts, background imageswe don't talk about what it looked like
  • 2011memezados — pvp minecraft server, 90 slots, always fullcustomized plugins in lua and made youtube tutorials teaching others how to set up servers
  • 20152nd place at startup weekend, age 15p2p rental marketplace
  • 2018co-founded futlab — content platform for fifa ultimate team playersvalidated with a wordpress lp and pre-sold subscriptions before writing any code. hired pro players for content and coaching. built the full product, but learned the market was too small.
  • 20191st place at global startup weekendcarbon offset platform integrated with ride-sharing apps
  • 2021started qual a boa v1. shut it down after a year.
  • 2023started qual a boa v2. different approach, same problem.
  • 2025acquired by ficpass. now CPTO leading 6 engineers.

inteli projects (2023-2024)

during my cs degree at inteli, i worked on projects with major brazilian companies:

  • valemaxlogistics optimization for vale's ore distribution networkjava, spring boot, react, d3.js
  • big motherreal-time location tracking for sírio-libanês er teamsesp-32, c#, mqtt
  • laplacechurn prediction model with bcg for a european energy companypython, scikit-learn
  • dendemfield sample collection platform for natura's r&d teamnode.js, express, sqlite
  • alaventuraeducational game teaching programming to kids in alagoas, with ufalgodot, gdscript

based in são paulo, brazil. portuguese (native), english (fluent), spanish (basic).