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AI Engineer · Full-Stack · CTO @ ImpulsoLead · Aveiro, Portugal

Building sharp digital products with engineering depth and AI precision.

I architect products, engineer the systems beneath them, and ship LLM and multi-agent features where they change the business result. The goal is leverage, not surface area.

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Selected Work

05 Projects

Engineering Journey

2020

Started coding with a bias toward shipping

Moved quickly from fundamentals into real builds, learning by putting work under pressure instead of leaving it in tutorial mode.

2022

Freelance software developer

Solo-delivered websites, full-stack apps, and REST APIs for local businesses and research projects across TypeScript, Python, PHP, and C# — from requirements through deployment and maintenance.

2023

Computer programming at Universidade de Aveiro

Technical higher education (CTeSP) at ESTGA — systems & network programming, network security, algorithms, discrete mathematics, and databases.

2025

Joined ImpulsoLead as founding engineer

Architected a multi-tenant B2B SaaS for the Brazilian real-estate market end to end — Next.js App Router, tRPC, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.

Now

Promoted to CTO within six months

Owning architecture, AI strategy, and infrastructure — including a LangGraph + Claude agent orchestration layer spanning 11 task types, on an async BullMQ + Redis pipeline.

What I Bring

Strategicproductthinkingpairedwithhands-ontechnicalownership.

The mix matters. Products move faster when the person shaping them can also build the hard parts.

Product & architecture

Engineering judgment, not ticket-level execution.

I turn unclear product ambition into system architecture and a shipping cadence that compounds. At ImpulsoLead I architected a multi-tenant B2B SaaS end to end and grew into the CTO seat.

Full-stack systems

Type-safe interfaces, resilient backends, and the operational spine underneath.

Next.js and tRPC on the front, FastAPI and async pipelines on BullMQ + Redis behind them. I care about speed, maintainability, and leverage in equal measure.

AI & LLM systems

Models earn their place when they sharpen the workflow.

I design multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph and the Claude SDK, RAG with pgvector, and the evaluation harnesses — faithfulness, safety, red-teaming — that keep them honest in production.

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Professional certifications across AI, security, and systems

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AI agent task types orchestrated in production at ImpulsoLead

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Projects shipped across web, AI, ML, and systems

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Contact

Whenthebriefisambitious,thebuildshouldbetoo.

If you need product judgment, engineering depth, and someone comfortable owning the hard middle, reach out.

Senior or lead AI / full-stack engineering roles
Product partnerships where engineering quality changes the outcome
Selective freelance work with clear scope and meaningful ambition

Clear scope beats vague hype.

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