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I'm a builder. I like the early stage, when the product is still an idea and someone has to turn it into something that solves a problem.

At Couchbase I joined the Capella platform team before GA and stayed through the IPO. At Chief I was one of the first engineers, and I'm a principal engineer there. More recently, I co-founded Nobur.

Building

2025 — Present
Joinville (BR)
Co-Founder · Nobur

Nobur runs real estate transactions in Brazil, for agencies and for brokers who work on their own.

  • · One place for the whole deal: the leads that arrive from the listing portals, the funnel, the conversations, the proposals, the contract and its signature, and the commission at the closing.
  • · Sold as a subscription, from the broker who works alone to the agency with a team.
  • · Each agency gets a public site of its own, with its listings.
  • · An assistant takes the repetitive part of the work off the broker.
  • · I built the foundation and most of what runs today, alongside an engineer co-founder.
2019 — Present
Joinville (BR)
Co-Founder · Convexus

A consultancy of two people, with engineering and organic growth under one roof.

  • · Two practices: engineering, which is product, infrastructure and AI, and organic growth, which is technical SEO and content.
  • · Fixed-scope projects or embedded time, with nobody between the client and the people who do the work.
  • · My engineering work for other companies runs through it, Chief and Couchbase among them.

Career

2024 — Present
Remote (US)
Principal Engineer · Chief

Enterprise AI platform that turns business data into insights. I was one of the first engineers and I am the largest contributor to the codebase.

  • · Built billing and credits end to end: Stripe, plans and subscriptions, the refill engine, budgets, per-tenant limits, and credit purchase at the organization level.
  • · Built the LLM platform: routing across Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini with retries and re-routing, tool calling, agents, memory, streaming, and token and cost accounting.
  • · Shipped the integrations that bring customer data in, among them Notion, Slack, Google Drive and Zoom, each connected at the organization level.
  • · Owned the platform: Terraform from the first line, Kubernetes with Helm, AlloyDB, Temporal, and the pipelines that ship it.
  • · Built multi-tenancy on PostgreSQL row-level security, so isolation lives in the database rather than in application filters.
  • · Built the observability stack on Prometheus and Grafana Cloud, with alerting on cost and usage spikes.
  • · Wrote the engineering standards and the internal tooling the team builds with.
2019 — 2024
Remote (US)
Principal Site Reliability Engineer · Couchbase

Capella is a fully managed DBaaS across cloud providers. Couchbase went public in 2021.

  • · Owned the CI/CD pipeline and the release process for 200+ engineers.
  • · Owned the infrastructure as code across cloud providers.
  • · Architected the observability stack and the Kubernetes orchestration of the control plane.
  • · Led cost optimization, from cloud spend to vendor contracts.
  • · Built the internal tools and sandbox environments the team develops against.
2018 — 2020
Remote (US)
Senior Site Reliability Engineer · TOTVS Labs

The research arm of TOTVS in the US. I worked on Carol, a SaaS data platform for ML and AI in the Brazilian market.

  • · Shaped the infrastructure, the architecture and the operation of the platform.
  • · Led the SRE team in my last year.

Earlier

2014 — 2018
Senior Site Reliability Engineer · TOTVS · Joinville (BR)
2011 — 2014
Linux System Administrator · Unimed · Joinville (BR)
2010 — 2011
Linux IT Consultant · TOTVS · Joinville (BR)
2008 — 2010
Linux System Administrator · Integral Informática · Joinville (BR)
2006 — 2008
IT Support Analyst · Datasul · Joinville (BR)

Building something early? The ways to reach me are on the about page.