// experience

15 years of shipping

A timeline of the roles, teams, and clients that shaped how I build today.

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    May 2023 — Present

    Chiku Inc

    Chiku — "Every photo has a story." A consumer photo app currently in pre-launch (chiku.live), helping users turn everyday photos into shared memories with the people closest to them.

    • Contributing across the product's engineering surface as we move toward public launch
    • Stack includes Swift + SwiftUI, Whisper, and modern AI-augmented workflows
  2. Founder & Lead Software Engineer

    Sep 2019 — Present

    FontTech (self-employed)

    My own practice — designing and building software end-to-end for personal products and local clients, from native mobile apps to full-stack web platforms.

    • Built FinApp (2022–present): a SwiftUI + Node.js + MongoDB + Redis iOS app for managing a Brazilian stock portfolio, including the tax logic other tools don't have — weighted-average pricing, realized P&L, loss carry-forward, multi-wallet live pricing, category allocation and Luiz Barsi price-floor valuation
    • Long-running engagements building tailored software for small teams and personal use
  3. Senior Mobile Developer (iOS & Android)

    Earlier role

    Riff

    Senior mobile engineer building and maintaining iOS and Android apps with Swift, Kotlin, Xcode, Android Studio, and CircleCI-based CI/CD.

    • Cross-functional team work shipping production mobile features
    • Recognized by teammates for clean, readable, well-documented code
  4. Full Stack Developer

    Earlier role

    KinBox

    Full-stack web development across the product — Python, Node.js, CSS, and Firebase, working closely with the team to ship features end-to-end.

  5. Software Engineer

    2010 — 2019

    Agency & product work

    A decade across agencies, product teams and freelance engagements — building web and mobile apps for US, UK and Brazilian clients and developing a taste for pragmatic, maintainable code.

    • Post-Graduation in Software Engineering at PUC Minas (2015–2017)
    • iOS Development certification (IDS Technology, 2014)
    • Graduation in Computer Science at Universidade de Itaúna (2008-2012)