About

this is me talking, not a resume. i recorded it in one go and left it in the order it came to me. written september 10, 2026.

im brazilian. italian brazilian actually, i hold dual citizenship.

i grew up in the south of brazil. cold place, pretty cold in winter, humid, 800 metres above sea level, settled by italians.

my father had a restaurant and thats where i grew up. we lived on the premises, there was a house attached to it. i lived there until i was 11.

i always liked sports, extreme sports mostly. and ever since i was little ive had this big admiration for technology. computers, computers above all.

when i was 9, if im not mistaken, i got my first computer. id seen them elsewhere, id been playing games at other peoples houses since i was really small. im still in love with the games from back then. what people had was a playstation 1, a playstation 2, sometimes a super nintendo, later on a wii.

anyway. at 9 i got my first computer. except the computer was actually given to my brother. when he didnt want it, when he got tired of it after countless hours, then it was my turn. maybe, if my mother let me, because sometimes he got off so late that id been waiting for nothing.

it was a machine with about 3 gb of ram, i dont remember the specs, but it had a 500 gb hard drive. and i never stopped. i dont mean that computer, i mean using computers, using technology.

i mostly used it to play games, but i always liked messing with it. i learned my way around editing software. i recorded videos for the internet, minecraft videos, videos of a few different games.

i was that kid who had his childhood on the internet, back when minecraft had just come out, the earliest versions. i played minecraft for a good stretch of my life, then moved to fps.

and thats what made learning english so easy for me. before i realised it, i was a teenager with english way beyond everyone else in my class. later i took an actual course, about four years ago, and thats when i really started studying. grammar, speaking. then came the international travel.

i havent mentioned it yet, but i was also a scout. from 8 to 16. thats eight years of my life.

during that same time when i loved computers so much, every single weekend i had scouts. and i grew up in there. from 8 to 16 is basically all of childhood, pre adolescence and adolescence, spent inside a scout group.

thats where i learned about values, about hierarchy, about patriotism, about unity. thats where i built a passion for nature, and where i got to know myself. and even a bit about society itself, about social interaction.

it wasnt all good. especially when i was younger, i was very skinny, so sometimes i was an easy target. not that i was bullied, but, you know, that kid whos a bit more on the defensive, the one people liked to mess with. just messing around, and sometimes in the bad sense. since im a very easy going guy, ive had that kind of experience. i still do.

but, anyways. scouting was a hugely important piece of my life. its what shaped my character.

i also didnt mention this, but ive been working for a very long time.

the earliest times i remember my parents giving me tasks at the restaurant, i was around 10, 11, maybe younger. and they werent simple little tasks. sometimes i spent the whole day working.

of course i studied and i had time to be a kid, to play. but i remember moments where i had the obligation of working next to my parents very early on. i sort of grew up with that duty. and to this day i still end up working for them. now, with my life the way it is, i cant give it as much attention. thank god they manage just fine.

but anyway, ive worked my whole life. i have a huge amount of experience dealing with the public. i have no problem at all talking to people.

in my personal life i might be a bit more selective, a bit more demanding. but professionally i do just fine. i dont have many restrictions. almost none, actually.

i already said im an easy going guy, so that always helped. i like working with people and i feel im good at it. thats one of my differentiators too. if you stop and think about it, youll see later that i have almost four years of experience in sales. i started as an assistant and within a few months i became a commercial consultant.

back to my life. i was a scout until 16 and, as i was finishing secondary school, the pandemic hit. there was no scouting for a long time. then i ended up doing other things with my life, i started a relationship, and i never went back.

but ill carry it for the rest of my life. it was completely worth it. i dont think its a bad idea to go back one day, or to be part of it somehow. maybe not fixed, showing up every weekend, but contributing. i have that wish inside me and its going to walk with me for the rest of my life.

and im still in that relationship. it will be seven years this year. thank god we have a great relationship, we share a lot of dreams. including living abroad, which is something ive been preparing for. im prepared, actually.

if an opportunity comes up, if youre reading this and you have one, feel free. be my guest.

anyways. i finished secondary school and i almost joined the brazilian army. thats a parallel story that im not going to tell right now.

actually its not that i almost joined. i was already in the army, and i decided to trade it while i still could, in those first days, while it was still possible to leave.

i traded it for the opportunity that had come up at the same moment, to work at the company where i stayed four years. an analytical laboratory, doing environmental analysis, environmental samples. soil, water. and part of that laboratory works with occupational samples. air analysis, occupational environments, workplace environments, the standards that come with it.

i hold a certificate in interpreting iso 17025. that whole world of process, of a well documented company, properly integrated into the system, with audits, with traceability, with management review. four years of that.

i forgot to mention it, but before the pandemic, a year earlier, in 2019, i went through senai.

senai is a brazilian industry programme, an industrial apprenticeship service, an educational service. and its great, excellent, good facilities, because industry is what funds it. here in my city industry is very strong. metallurgy, metalworking, plastics, polymers, resins, abrasives. in my region thats very strong.

that fits into the same period as the scouting years, actually, because it was right at the end of senai that i started my relationship.

and at senai i learned a lot about companies, about how the corporate world works. my course was in industrial logistics processes, so i studied every department of an industrial operation. that was really good for me.

i think that, combined with the experience i had later at the iso 17025 laboratory, with certification at a national and even international level, because its an iso, well, it was a great experience.

i also took an auditing course and was qualified as an internal auditor for the company. so i dont just hold the certificate in interpreting the standard, i hold the internal auditor certification too. that helped me a lot. thats my base, my foundation.

it was four years in sales at that laboratory. but when i say sales i feel a bit superficial, because my job went much deeper than that.

i weighed in heavily on investment, on company wide decisions, on commercial strategy at a genuinely macro level. which equipment would be worth buying, which certifications the company should hold, which analyses and which assays would be worth getting certified for. based on my panoramic view of the market and on the clients i served.

i doubled my portfolio, more than doubled it, practically tripled it in revenue within a few months. i inherited a broken portfolio and handed the company the biggest one it had. mine came to represent 50% of total revenue.

my run there was excellent. i cant think of a single negative, except that i wish id had more opportunities inside the company. and thats one of the reasons im not there anymore.

i felt completely outside my own field. ill admit that technology, even though it was what i wanted, kept getting pushed aside. but i did scratch that itch, i helped them configure a lot of things and i had a strong influence on the it side.

in fact today theyre my clients. i have them in my portfolio of it services. i have flows, automations, applications running, databases, internal infrastructure serving them directly. i kept an excellent relationship after i left. i handed everything over clean, everything perfect.

and now i work in software.

after those four years at the laboratory, i got the wonderful opportunity to work at an organisation that builds nutrition software. its from my own city, started by friends who were very close to me back in secondary school, who called me in because they knew i could add something, that i was the right person to have on the team. it couldnt have gone better, it couldnt have been more perfect.

today im a critical piece of the operation at a software company where we work with a lean team. each person absorbs an enormous amount of responsibility and has to move fast. you have to be very capable of automating your own processes and the companys processes. and you need the talk and the communication to carry to the rest of the operation what matters most at that moment. to catch the timing.

i forgot to mention it, but about a year and a half ago i started studying systems analysis and development, an undergraduate technologist degree. im not naming the university, thats for my cv. im not naming places or names here, almost nothing in this part. its as if i were speaking in generic terms.

and even before leaving the laboratory i was already studying it, i was already in this field. so i really wanted it, i truly wanted it, and i got this wonderful opportunity.

today im in my field, working with what im studying. i learn a lot at my job, a huge amount. an absurd amount of knowledge about infrastructure, about applications, about databases.

the more technical part of what i know goes in the cv, but i work a lot with automation. automation flows, workflows, scripts, satellite processes. ive built a lot of things on the spot. the quick solution, when you need a quick read, quick feedback to make a decision, a piece of information pulled fast, a new form of tracking, a new workflow, an adjustment, an improvement to a workflow that already exists, two features merged into a better one, refactoring, front end or back end.

and today i already have my own virtual machine running, serving my own clients and my own projects. all of that came from the opportunity i was given.

and what i see for the future is that im open to whatever comes.

i made a hard decision in my life in order to take risk. i was doing very well at the laboratory. it was stable, i had a great career ahead of me, a good salary that was only going to grow, under brazils clt employment regime, which is a labour system very full of benefits for the employee here. so much so that the business owner sometimes struggles with it. and i walked away from that comfort.

while i was at the laboratory i got the chance to travel abroad, not through the company, with those same friends who today founded the company i work at. ive always been very close to them.

it was so stable there that i managed to go to europe. i visited france, england, switzerland, i saw the swiss alps. i spoke a foreign language a lot on that trip, i talked to a lot of people from other countries.

i met a guy from south korea who i still talk to now and then. he works at samsung. when we talked we were on a train heading to grindelwald, and he told me he was trying to get into samsung, that he was applying and passing the tests. today he really is an engineer at samsung, back in korea. afterwards we kept talking online, as soon as we both got back from our trips, and he told me hed been accepted. we stay in touch every once in a while.

i talked to a guy from italy, from the south of italy, with really funny english. but it was so good to talk to him, to have that exchange at the hotel in switzerland, in zurich. we talked while we were cooking, in the hotels shared kitchen. it was a wonderful experience. i dont know that guy, i dont remember his name, i didnt keep his contact, unfortunately.

i had other chances like that. i talked to a guy in england, in a corner shop, on the streets of london, and we had a really nice conversation, a really good one.

i have a passion for this. inside me lives this feeling of wanting to know the world, to know people, to know new cultures.

we also met a german guy who ran a convenience shop in switzerland, and he gave us three coffees. in switzerland that was seven francs each. and seven francs, in our currency, turned into fifty.

which means. if you converted it for an american, its as if he were paying fifty dollars for a coffee. for us it really is that expensive.

we make this comparison that our money is like a dollar, because the effort we put in here in brazil to earn it is the equivalent of an americans effort to earn his dollar. the difference is that the american is in america, and his dollar is worth far more, and buys far more. while here in brazil ours is worth far less and things cost far more. the proportion is absurd.

so picture it. if youre american, or european, its as if you were paying fifty dollars, or fifty euros, for a coffee. thats the math you have to do to understand the head of a brazilian travelling abroad. it really is rough. imagine paying fifty dollars for a coffee. youd lose your mind. for us its exactly the same thing.

of course, for us, fifty dollars for a coffee would actually be two hundred and fifty in our money. and if you flip it back around, the scale gets even bigger. but anyway. run that comparison that doesnt exist, just to feel what a brazilian feels.

i was very stable at my company. i even travelled around brazil, i know quite a few places, other states. brazil is an enormous country, each state is like a different country, thats how different they are. inside brazil itself we have so many different people, an enormous diversity of culture, of people. brazil is an incredible country.

and i traded that comfort away. today i cant afford an international trip.

i actually started working at my startup for free, lets put it that way. i worked there for a few months without earning any salary, purely for the experience. so you can see how crazy i was, and how badly i wanted into this field. and it was the best thing ive ever done, honestly. i feel incredible.

to this day i dont have the comfort, the stability or the income i had back when i worked there. and thats why im open to new opportunities.

not only for that. because i also carry this urge to show up out in the world, to show up abroad, in other countries. to have that exchange with people from other countries, that globalisation. i have good english, i have european citizenship, and ive always dreamed of living abroad.

i think i have a lot to offer wherever wants to give me a chance to get out of brazil, so to speak. to put one foot outside the country and start having that experience. because i feel ive been preparing my whole life for it.

and thats basically it.

today i work as a sole proprietor here in brazil, so im no longer under the employee regime. the game is a bit different. i can work for more than one place at the same time, i have a certain autonomy, a bit more freedom.

which, in practice, and ill be honest, has me working harder than ive ever worked in my life. honestly, i worked far less under the other regime, in terms of hours. the workday ended and i could simply relax. i knew nobody was going to call me, that nobody was going to ask me for anything, that i didnt owe anyone anything.

whereas here, if i dont do my things, anything can happen. im responsible for my own things. so it changed a lot.

but its been a good experience. its giving me a certain freedom i didnt have before, a different way of living, and a different way of looking at the people around me. because its autonomy, its independence, like it or not.

and thats it. if you read this far, i want to thank you.

and, man, if you have an opportunity for me, get in touch. low cost, high output. i promise you im someone you can trust.

i can say ive built a lot of cool things over my life, great solutions. if youre interested, ask me about them and ill walk you through. i can walk you through a whole series of things ive built. honestly, i cant remember them all. im building solutions all the time, i take pleasure in it.

and im a perfectionist, in a way. i really like doing things properly, i really care about the result, im in love with the result.

and taking my whole background into account, thats one of the reasons im in love with cooking too. i didnt say this, but ive had a passion for cooking for a long time, and one of my dreams is to make a living cooking.

someday im still going to be a chef, or at least work at some bar, some bistro, or have my own. as a hobby, or out of passion, to do the thing i love and hand it to other people.

and thats it.