- Now
- AI team at SYDLE
- Based in
- Belo Horizonte, UTC−3
- Works in
- Rust, TypeScript, Python
Most of what I build replaces a judgement call with something you can check.
Software engineer at SYDLE, on the AI team. Right now that means retrieval and the layer between our product and the model providers. Before moving to that team in March 2026, nearly three years on the company's education platforms.
Case studies
Three, picked because the decision in each is a different kind: how to rank, what to let a model do, and whether the problem needed solving at all.
BM25 + kNN
RRF
Vector search could not match a name
A customer reported that searches for exact strings came back wrong, people's names above all. The index was vector only, and embeddings put two different names in nearly the same place. I added a lexical pass and combined the two rankings by position rather than by score.
GitHub Actions
WordPress REST
A publishing pipeline I do not have to watch
Five stages that research, write and publish to a live site. Most of the work went into the check that sits between generation and publishing, and into keeping the publishing credentials away from the process that writes.
crates.io
Apache-2.0
Six agents reading one file
Coding agents each want their own rules file, so people keep the same text in half a dozen places. The tools that solve this generate a copy per tool. Since the formats had already converged, I gave the one file several names instead, which removes the generate step and the copy you can edit by mistake.
Experience
SYDLE, AI team
March 2026 to now
I work on the layer between the product and the model providers: retrieval, the connector facade that every agent configuration talks to, tool calling, and the integration tests that record real gateway traffic so the suite can run without paying for it.
Eleven providers sit behind that one interface:
SYDLE, education platforms
May 2023 to March 2026
Nearly three years across four production systems used by thousands of people, on core modules, front-end architecture and a legacy migration.
Also shipped
architect
A Claude Code plugin that audits a repository and installs what is missing: branching, database isolation, CI, versioning, enforcement. It sets up the environment rather than writing the application.
tecnoversus.com
The site the pipeline publishes to. I am the only engineer on it, from the pipeline through to the deploy.
Studio 733
Laundry booking for a building of about twenty residents. No login: people identify by apartment number, because signing up was the thing that would stop them using it. Private deployment, so there is no link.
Contact
Let's talk.
If you are working on retrieval, developer tooling, or anywhere a model's output has to be trusted by a person, I would like to hear about it.
Remote suits me best. On-site and hybrid work too, if you are in Belo Horizonte.