A. De Souza

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I build from the ground up — system to interface.

AI engineer and full-stack builder, now CTO at ImpulsoLead. My work sits at the intersection of LLM systems, full-stack engineering, and a strong bias toward shipping things that survive contact with reality.

01 — Record

Built through repetitionCoding since 2020

  • 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.

02 — Principles

Clarity, leverage, and choices that age well.

  • 01

    Build for the real bottleneck

    The right solution is rarely the flashiest one. I start with where time, trust, or decision quality is actually being lost.

  • 02

    Protect the system while moving quickly

    Fast shipping matters. So does not creating future drag every time speed is required. I optimize for both.

  • 03

    Use AI with product logic

    AI is valuable when it sharpens a workflow, qualifies intent, or increases operator leverage. Everything else is noise.

03 — Case

The tools, grouped by where they earn their keep.

  • AI / ML

    Anthropic Claude SDK · LangGraph · Multi-agent orchestration · RAG · Voyage AI embeddings · pgvector · MLOps · SHAP · Optuna · MLflow

  • Languages

    TypeScript · Python · Java · C# · PHP · SQL

  • Backend

    Node.js · tRPC · FastAPI · Prisma · async SQLAlchemy · REST · BullMQ

  • Frontend

    Next.js (App Router) · React · Tailwind CSS

  • Data & Infra

    PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Nginx + PM2 · Vercel · Clerk · Stripe

Education

Universidade de Aveiro — ESTGA

2023 — 2026

Technical Higher Education (CTeSP), Computer Programming · Águeda, Portugal

Coursework across systems & network programming, low-level systems, network security, algorithms, discrete mathematics, and databases.

Certifications

  • MLOpsDuke University
  • Generative AI for Growth MarketingIBM
  • Full-Stack DeveloperMicrosoft
  • Cybersecurity AnalystMicrosoft
  • SQLUniversity of Colorado Boulder
  • Essential Mathematics for CSUniversity of London
  • Open Science 101NASA