I love to innovate, research, brainstorm, architect, prototype, create, and develop awesome things. I'm very curious, and easily intrigued by hard problems and new challenges.
I'm a creative entrepreneur with a solid background in technology; a computer scientist with a broad and strong set of skills, which includes problem solving, product development, product vision, data science/analytics and software architecture. For fun, I design, create, and hack hardware and software projects. I also enjoy playing guitar and drums, writing about tech, storytelling, creating artwork, songwriting, and collecting certain vintage computers.
My first computers were a TK90X (a Sinclair Spectrum Clone) and a Hotbit MSX. I first learned about computing by reading a lot of books and magazines, and by accessing every Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) whose dial-in numbers I could get my hands on. I am pretty sure I was one of the first kids in Brazil to have a modem (with a speed of 300bps) back in 1987.
Pittsburgh, PA US
(Medallia acquired Voci Technologies Inc.)
Director of Software Engineering • 2019 - Present
Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management.
My team is responsible for developing software tools that add value to solutions built with our lightning-fast Speech-To-Text engine.
medallia.com | vocitec.com
CTO • 2014 - 2019
OnlyBoth analyzes data sets by looking for novel comparative insights and then reporting all findings in English, just as if a human had done the research and written the reports. Its technology combines machine discovery – Artificial Intelligence algorithms that discover humanly-digestible knowledge – with natural language generation (NLG), making insights easy to read and share in perfect English. At OnlyBoth, I designed and created the web application and managed all the AWS infrastructure and web development. We eventually launched a portal called BenchMine to benchmark US Healthcare Segments using public datasets made available by the US Government.
benchmine.com
Founder and CEO• 2012 - 2014
Meaningfy was a web service that allowed users to track news related to specific companies, products, and industries of interest (think "Google Alerts" on steroids). It was a competitive intelligence web service based on Machine Learning recommendations and user collaboration. It provided teams with an up-to-date, consolidated view of their competitive landscape. The company was accepted into 2 startup accelerators (AlphaLab/IW and IdeaFoundry), raising $50K between them. In addition, it also received a bit of funding from CMU's i6 Agile Innovation System.
meaningfy.com
See my LinkedIn page for the full experience.
Masters in Analysis, Design & Management of Information Systems
Bachelors in Computer Science
Executive Program: Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy • 2018
Self-driving car Engineer Nanodegree • (I graduated!!!! See my certificate.)
The Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree was a 9-months (3 terms, 4 if you count the intro) program that covered key topics like deep learning, computer vision, sensor fusion, localization, controllers, vehicle kinematics, automotive hardware, and more.
some of my project videos
Intro to Self-Driving Cars Nanodegree • 2017
Essentials of building a self-driving car, including probability, C++, machine learning, linear algebra, Python skills, C++, and computer vision.
The Complete Agile Scrum Product Owner Masterclass • 2020
Technical Program Management • 2019
I'm skilled in many areas, including: Python, Agile, Rails, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Javascript, Database Design, SQL, NoSQL, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Self-Driving Cars Tech, Robotics, Web, Search Tech, and Data Science.
AlugueAqui.com.br was a web portal (in portuguese) for all things that people could either rent or lease.
BebeMania.com.br was a web portal (in portuguese) for new parents with lots of information related to pregnancy, infants, and young toddlers.
iTraceYou.com was an effective and advanced delivery notification service that would confirm when email recipients would read the emails sent through the service.
Endurance is a turn-based, battle card game. I worked on the gameplay, all the artwork, a cool online version to playtest the game, and launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the manufacturing of the paper-based game.
Arduino-powered display to act as a face for my Amazon Echo device
Help the monkey king get even with as many birds as possible after the birds have destroyed the monkeys' banana kingdom. Don't let any birds get away. Tap on the screen to throw bananas at them, and watch out for those clouds! Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Furious Monkeys at the App Store. Download Furious Monkeys and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
A very comprehensive Data Crunching API built with Python. With SQLpie, you can store JSON objects in a SQL database and run a lot of information retrieval and machine learning tasks, covering areas such as: Text Classification, Text Summarization, Collaborative Filtering (item recommendation and similarity), Boolean/Vector Search, Document Matching, TagClouds, etc...
A very comprehensive Data Crunching API built with Python.
SQLpie is an open source API framework written in Python. Behind the scenes, it uses all sorts of SQL statements to creatively perform all kinds of computing tasks (thus, SQLpie). With SQLpie, you can store JSON objects in a SQL database and run a lot of information retrieval and machine learning tasks, covering areas such as: Boolean/Vector Search, Text Classification, Text Summarization, Collaborative Filtering (item recommendation and similarity), Document Matching, TagClouds, etc...
iPhone Swift app for real-time Speech-to-Speech translation. The app performs real-time translation while leveraging Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech Google+Apple APIs. For example, the app will listen to someone speaking Portuguese, will translate it to English, and speak the translation in English. The app will also do the other way around. It will speak in Portuguese words pronounced in English.
Canvas-based Text Plugin for Flot, the JavaScript plotting library for jQuery.
R&D to improve the relevance of personalized RSS data feeds.
I wrote this very comprehensive book about Python. The book mostly focused on Python release 1.6, but it also introduced readers to then, recently-launched, release 2.0
Computer Science For Kids was designed to introduce the basics concepts of computer sciences to kids who are starting to learn about computers at school or at home. I used Python as the language taught in the book.
Help the monkey king get even with as many birds as possible after the birds have destroyed the monkeys' banana kingdom. Don't let any birds get away. Tap on the screen to throw bananas at them, and watch out for those clouds! Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Furious Monkeys at the App Store. Download Furious Monkeys and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Turn-based, battle card game. I worked on the gameplay, all the artwork, a cool online version to playtest the game, and launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the manufacturing of the paper-based game. See more at endurancecardgame.com
Arduino-powered display to act as a face for my Amazon Echo device.
Blockmark was a short-lived web service that offered the ability to bookmark specific paragraphs of web pages by having the user highlight the desired content and then click a novel browser bookmarklet button that had to be installed. All clippings were made available through the service's website.
iTraceYou.com was an effective and advanced delivery notification service that would confirm when email recipients would read the emails sent through the service.
OpenTrace Technologies | Confirmando (version for the Brazilian market)
AlugueAqui.com.br was a web portal (in portuguese) for all things that people could either rent or lease.
BebeMania.com.br was a web portal (in portuguese) for new parents with lots of information related to pregnancy, infants, and young toddlers.
Back in 2016 I wrote and directed this short fanfilm entry to participate in the official StarWars GoRogue contest promoted by LucasFilm/Disney.
Just some comic strips I created that were inspired by real and fictional stories.
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