Tech Lead at Gruvi. Fifteen years of Ruby, Rails, Elixir and Phoenix, from Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Brazil, to Porto, Portugal.
Cerca Finder is my studio: small, sharp tools for software teams, starting with ReviewPilot.
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Technologies I used at each company, from my CV.
Chesterton’s fence. If you find a fence across a road and see no use for it, don’t pull it down; first learn why it was put there. It is the oldest rule of code review, and the idea behind the name Cerca Finder.
I read code the way I read books: slowly, twice, and looking for why.
I’m a Tech Lead at Gruvi, where I lead a team of six engineers, and a software engineer who works mostly in Ruby, Rails, Elixir and Phoenix. I have built data pipelines for film marketing, telephony platforms, financial systems, e-commerce integrations, restaurant reservations and video pipelines, and I like the unglamorous parts of the job: reviews, tests, background jobs, migrations and the deploy that has to work on the first try.
I’m growing toward engineering leadership, and I want to be the kind of CTO who still reads the diff: someone who knows why each fence in the codebase is there before deciding to move it, and who builds teams that ship with care.
Cerca Finder is where I practise that in public. Every product here is designed, built, deployed and supported by me, so every decision has a name attached to it.
Gruvi is an international online advertising agency for film: theatrical releases, video on demand, festivals and cinema events. I lead the six-engineer team that productionises its data: extracting and transforming campaign results, cinema ticket sales, seat occupancy, showtimes, weather and holidays, and exposing clean data to the rest of the company. Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Python, AWS and Looker.
Telephony with Rails, Elixir and FreeSWITCH, Kafka integrations and Sidekiq jobs. Helped raise development speed by 30%, call capacity by 40% and customer satisfaction by 15%.
Consultant on the DECO PROteste platform: Sidekiq background processing, test suite optimisation, Ruby and Rails upgrades, some Elixir.
A financial system in Elixir: invoice import and processing, Oban jobs against partner APIs, libraries to read and write xlsx files.
Sales-channel integrations for merchants: Google Shopping, Merchant Center, Facebook Shopping, MercadoLibre and OLX, with Ruby, Sinatra, React and Sidekiq.
My own software company in Brazil.
Microservices for restaurant reservations with Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Elixir and Python on Postgres and Redis.
Chose and built a video-encoding platform in Elixir and Ruby with RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB and Postgres, delivered in a year.
I grew up under the Pico do Itabira, in the town that gave Brazil its “King”, Roberto Carlos.
At R7.com, from 2014, I helped choose Elixir and Ruby for a video-encoding platform, the same year Elixir 1.0 shipped. At ChefsClub I built the microservices behind restaurant reservations.
I founded Futurama Tec in 2017. It taught me that software is only half of a business: the other half is customers, invoices and keeping promises.
I moved to Porto, worked with Jumpseller, Finbits, Novabase and Broadvoice, and opened Cálculo Fonético, the company behind Cerca Finder. From here Madrid, Barcelona, Andorra, Paris and Italy are a short trip away, and I have visited every one of them.
By day, Tech Lead at Gruvi, leading a team of six. On my own time, ReviewPilot: an AI code reviewer built from the first commit to paying customers, one careful step at a time.
AI code review for GitHub pull requests. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key. Your diff passes through our servers, goes to your AI provider with your key, and is deleted as soon as the analysis ends (default). You choose to keep it for 7 or 30 days.
More tools will follow. Each one starts as a small experiment here, and earns its own name once people rely on it.
The books I keep going back to shaped how I think about software more than any framework did.
Also: football, my Catholic faith, a soft spot for European royal history, and The Lion King, still the best story about knowing where you come from.