Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 · 0 mo

• Kapazi is the leading textile flooring manufacturer in Latin America. As Head of Operations at Tapz, I led a full restructuring of the company’s digital strategy, marketing performance, and commercial operations. We delivered measurable and high-impact results across revenue, engagement, and profitability:
• 55.4% increase in weekly revenue comparing the first and last week of the project
• 30% growth in total social media account interactions
• Reduced paid media dependency from 91.4% to 73.1%
• 80% cost optimization
• Achieved ROAS growth from 2x up to 22.8x, with ROI surpassing 1200%
• +19.8% increase in link clicks and +17.7% in profile visits
• 9% MoM revenue growth with no additional paid traffic
• 80% drop in delivery complaints after logistics restructuring

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr

• Mercado Livre the leading big tech in Latin America. I led cloud engineering and aiops initiatives within a multi-billion-dollar cloud billing, focusing on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and operating at the intersection of finance, technology, and large-scale infrastructure. Key contributions include:
• Managed and optimized costs across Generative AI workloads, including model selection, prompt/query design, and usage efficiency, helping control rapid cost expansion in AI-related services
• Developed and improved a cost anomaly detection system, preventing over $40MM in unnecessary cloud expenses (cost avoidance)
• Spearheaded the negotiation of a new cloud contract with Google, securing highly favorable terms and generating $240MM in cost savings compared to the prior agreement
• Actively led contract negotiations, instance reservation planning, and Savings Plan strategy, aligning long-term commitments with usage forecasts and unlocking deep discounts
• Built and maintained advanced FinOps dashboards, automated reporting, and budgeting pipelines, enabling greater visibility and control over cloud expenditure
• Collaborated with engineering, data, and finance teams to scale FinOps culture, improve forecasting accuracy, and drive data-driven decisions
• Worked across AI, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling, always with a focus on maximizing business value and eliminating inefficiencies
• This role required a deep understanding of both technology and financial levers, with direct influence over strategic outcomes in a hyper-scale environment.

Jul 2023 – Dec 2023 · 5 mos · São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brasil

• Contributed to the PhD research “Land Conservation and the Renewable Energy Transition are Simultaneously Possible in Brazil”, focused on reconciling large-scale renewable energy development with ecosystem preservation.
• Acted in software and data engineering, building analytical and geospatial models to support environmental and energy planning at a national scale.
• The study was later featured in Nature, reinforcing how data-driven engineering can enable both sustainability and progress in emerging economies.

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023 · 6 mos · São Paulo, Brasil

• Co-organizer of Kubernetes Community Days Brazil 2023, the largest Kubernetes event in Latin America, and Cloud Sustainability Week Brazil 2023, a national initiative focused on sustainable cloud computing best practices.
• At Kubernetes Community Days, I worked alongside CNCF and local community leaders to curate technical content, engage speakers from global companies, and bring together thousands of professionals from across the region.
• At Cloud Sustainability Week, I helped lead discussions and sessions on green cloud strategies, financial efficiency in cloud infrastructure, and operational excellence — engaging cloud engineers, FinOps leaders, and decision-makers from top enterprises.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · São Paulo, Brasil

• BTG Pactual is the leading investment banking in Latin America. I was responsible for leading AiOps and Cloud Engineering efforts within a high-scale cloud environment, managing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual spend, hundreds of thousands of workloads, and tens of thousands of servers across GCP, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. My contributions spanned from infrastructure optimization to cultural transformation, resulting in measurable financial and operational outcomes. Key highlights include:
• Led a cost optimization program that reduced total technology spend by 17% in 2023, generating $60MM in savings through data analysis, automation, negotiation, and strategic cost control
• Designed and built an AI-powered tool to analyze technology cost data, detect anomalies, forecast expenses, and escalate cost spikes — enabling 100% monitoring, 88% SLA reduction, and delivering $43MM in annual savings
• Optimized Kubernetes clusters and application configurations across environments, driving performance and unlocking major efficiency gains. Enabling $12MM in Kubernetes Savings
• Modernized and optimized 90% of storage infrastructure across dev, staging, and production, resulting in $3.4MM in yearly savings
• Oversaw cloud FinOps operations across over 1,000 cloud accounts, managing APIs, GenAI models, software licenses, and infrastructure spend at scale
• Played a key role in building the BTG FinOps internal training program, recognized as the company’s best technical initiative in 2023, with ~3,000 developers adopting FinOps practices
• Helped embed a culture of cost accountability across engineering, product, and finance teams — bridging technical and business perspectives to drive long-term cloud sustainability
• This role gave me full visibility into large-scale cloud economics and empowered me to engineer impact in one of the most complex tech-finance environments in Latin America.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

• I left school at 15 to join Roit.AI, Brazil’s leading accountech company and one of the first in the country to apply AI to tax and accounting automation.
• Worked as a Software and Automation Engineer, creating internal tools and automations that improved efficiency in large-scale financial and tax processes.
• Focused on building reliable, maintainable systems that supported Roit’s mission to make accounting more intelligent, data-driven, and accessible through technology

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

• Data Analyst and Coaching Staff for professional League of Legends teams competing in CBLOL and LLA, working at the intersection of performance analytics, strategy, and player development.
• As a professional player, coach, and analyst, I contributed to some of the largest esports organizations in Brazil and Latin America, becoming at the time the youngest professional LoL coach in the world.
• I helped my teams achieve 3rd place in CBLOL, Brazil’s premier League of Legends championship, and 1st place in Cebolão, the largest independent tournament in the region.
• I specialize in transforming raw game data into actionable insights, optimizing team performance, drafting strategies, and guiding player growth at the highest competitive level.
• Passionate about competitive gaming, AI, and analytics, I combine technical expertise with real-world experience to help teams win at the top tier of esports.

Jan 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Куритиба, PR

• Voice actor for Netflix, contributing to international productions with localized performances that bring characters to life for global audiences.
• I have worked on series including “A Korean Odyssey” (화유기) and “Treehouse Detectives”, providing engaging and authentic voice work for diverse characters.
• Skilled in voice acting, audio performance, and localization, I combine creativity and technical precision to deliver high-quality performances that resonate with viewers worldwide.
• Passionate about storytelling and character-driven narratives, I aim to bring emotion, nuance, and authenticity to every role I perform.