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Brain, AI, and Child Laboratory

Research Assistant Intern

08/2022 - Present

During the second week of classes at CU Boulder, my computer science professor, Dr. Tom Yeh, invited me to join his laboratory as a research assistant intern.

The BAIC lab has around ten research projects simultaneously. I am involved with multiple projects; I have highlighted the ones I am most involved with in the Projects section.

Poatek IT Consulting
A WillowTree Company

Software Engineer

06/2021 - 06/2022

Poatek, one of the WillowTree branches, is an IT boutique based in Brazil, with high-end clients from around the globe.

During the year I worked there, I mainly worked with an asset management firm in Florida as a full-stack software engineer. Among my accomplishments, a few that are worth mentioning are:

  • Implemented a new dashboard used by the whole user base daily;
  • Developed multiple high-performance endpoints in NodeJS to handle both user transactions and internal tools;
  • Created an AWS Lambda with Kotlin to parse and evaluate XLSX files with custom wrote XIRR calculations, using the XLSX itself as the CPU, making complex estimated returns calculations simple;
  • Wrote an utterly new signature flow using DocuSign APIs, facilitating the signing and document fetching process, making a week’s worth of work manual labor automatic;
  • Developed multiple successful POCs using different languages and frameworks, saving the team valuable time when evaluating new ideas;

Stockvio LLC

Founder & CEO

11/2020 - 02/2022

Stockvio is a platform where users can automatically calculate their taxes over capital gains in BOVESPA using only their trading receipts.

When I started investing in the Brazilian stock market in 2020, I realized how complicated, tedious, and error-prone the process of calculating taxes over capital gains was.

With this in mind, I designed software to automate the whole process, only using the trading receipts provided by the investor’s brokerage. A few of my responsibilities within the company were:

  • Implemented the first version of the parsing and calculation algorithm;
  • Handled day-to-day operations & business logic;
  • Assisted the coordination of the development team with the CTO;
  • Developed the majority of the frontend with NextJS and multiple endpoints using NestJS & PostgreSQL;

projects

AR & The Future of Work

This is one of the projects from the BAIC laboratory that I am involved with. The study consists of providing the participant with blueprints of a simple plumbing and electric diagram and AR glasses, on which the participant can see where each pipe/electrical component should be installed.

The study’s goal is to compare the performance of construction workers when provided with AR glasses instead of only blueprints. Among the variables are the years of experience in the field of the participant and whether they have previous experience with AR.

In this project, I am responsible for developing and maintaining the software that the researchers use to see in real-time what the participant can see through the AR glasses.

AI Stories

In partnership with researchers from Brazil and Mexico, this project from Dr. Yeh’s laboratory aims to spread AI knowledge through developing communities.

We use AI-related stories written by high school & undergraduate students from those communities to study their awareness and understanding of AI and its societal impacts. The goal is to help them develop their knowledge about this technology they interact with daily.

OpenCollab

Developed with React and NextJS for the frontend and GO for the backend, OpenCollab is a hub where open-source project authors can connect with people willing to contribute. A colleague and I developed it in the span of a few weeks, in which I was mainly responsible for the frontend.

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LanguagesTypescript, Javascript, Java, C++ & Kotlin
WebNode, Express, Nest, Next, HTML, CSS, SCSS, React, Styled Components, Angular, AngularJS, Redux, Elastic UI, Webpack, and Bootstrap
DatabasesMongoDB and PostgresSQL
OtherFigma, AdobeXD, Docker, Linux/Unix, Vercel, AWS, Git, GitHub & GitHub Actions
EducationUniversity of Colorado - Boulder (Class 2026)
Computer Science, BS

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