About Me

I’m a Tech Lead Engineer at Youse, with over 15 years building systems that matter to real people. I’ve always cared more about the impact of what we build than the technology we use to build it.

I’m a neurodivergent and atypical father, and that experience has shaped how I see teams, communication, and empathy at work. Clarity isn’t a detail: it’s the foundation of everything.

My life

I’m based in São Paulo and split my time between systems architecture, technical leadership, and fatherhood, which, honestly, has taught me more about management than any tech book ever could.

Being neurodivergent gave me a different way of thinking about how people learn, collaborate, and do their best work. That lens shapes everything I do, inside and outside of work.

Current work

I lead engineering teams at Youse, with a focus on technical quality, team culture, and making sure what we ship is actually worth shipping.

A big part of my job is mentoring: helping people grow as engineers and as people. Good leadership means clearing the path, building enough trust that people can fail without fear, and keeping the work meaningful. I try to be easy to work with, someone who listens, pushes back when needed, and keeps the group moving without burning it out.

Day to day, I sit between the technical and the business side, making sure neither loses track of the other.

Research interests

I’m actively exploring how AI is changing software development. The tooling side is obvious, but I’m more interested in what it means to be an engineer when the machine can write code too.

I’m also interested in neurodiversity in tech, async communication that actually works, and how distributed teams can build better software with less noise.

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“My brain doesn’t work like the manual says. Turns out, neither do the best solutions.”