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A path from São Paulo to Basel

Twenty years of building systems where a bug is someone's money — across Brazil, Spain, and Switzerland. Follow the route. Each landmark adds to the story.

  1. Origins

    São Paulo

    FATEC, first banking delivery, IBM innovation lab, Importa Brasil.

  2. study 2005–2009

    FATEC Sorocaba

    Systems Analysis & Information Technology — the tecnólogo degree that opened the door to a career building production software, not slide decks.

  3. work 2009–2012

    GFT Technologies

    First professional chapter in banking delivery — rich internet applications for international clients, then mobile SDKs and an internal app store.

  4. launch 2011–2017

    Importa Brasil

    Sole owner and developer of an online bulletin board for people importing goods from Brazil — 65,000+ members and ~4,000 daily visits at peak.

  5. work 2012–2015

    IBM Innovation Lab

    Java Technical Lead in IBM's innovation lab — built an internal product to detect and prevent leakage of confidential information, from prototype to production.

  6. A decade in Spain

    Spain

    GFT architecture, N26, side projects, international stages.

  7. work 2015–2019

    GFT — Architect & Tech Lead

    Led architecture and delivery on platform projects inside international retail and investment banks — microservices, cloud migration, internal tooling for delivery teams.

  8. launch 2017–2019

    Notastica

    Automated receipt submission for Brazilian non-profits collecting tax donations — 45 seconds per receipt down to 3. 20+ non-profits, 1.8M receipts, more than R$1M raised.

  9. launch 2018–2022

    Crochet.land

    Flutter app built and maintained solo — 100k+ downloads, ~18k monthly active users, 4.9 rating. Shipped while leading teams at N26.

  10. talk 2019

    TEDxLleida

    AI Is Not the World of Movies, It's Already Reality — first major stage talk, rooted in the Lleida tech community before Barcelona.

  11. work 2019–2024

    N26

    Four years at Europe's most-funded neobank — fee platform embedded in ledger APIs, then Principal Engineer rebuilding fraud prevention on Apache Flink in under six months.

  12. talk 2022

    N26 Tech Meetup Berlin

    Hosted a Berlin engineering meetup on N26's Kotlin microservices, Kubernetes migration, and event-driven architecture — the talk that became the InsideN26 stack article.

  13. talk 2023

    N26 Career Journeys Panel

    Panel at N26 Barcelona on non-traditional paths into software engineering — career transitions, mentorship, and growing into technical leadership.

  14. talk 2023

    Kafka Summit London

    Eliminating the Double Write Problem in Apache Kafka Using the Outbox Pattern — from N26's event-driven architecture work.

  15. talk 2024

    KotlinConf Copenhagen

    From Code to Streams: A Kotlin Odyssey with Apache Flink — the fraud-prevention streaming rebuild that defined the N26 Principal Engineer chapter.

  16. talk 2024

    DevBCN Barcelona

    The Journey to Becoming a Staff Software Engineer — career arc talk on the Barcelona stage, same year as KotlinConf and WeAreDevelopers.

  17. talk 2024

    WeAreDevelopers World Congress

    Session at one of the largest developer conferences in the world — engineering at scale from the trenches of European fintech and energy tech.

  18. talk 2024

    JavaCro

    Session on modern backend architecture and distributed systems in the JVM ecosystem — Central Europe's leading Java conference on the Adriatic coast.

  19. work 2024–2025

    Personio

    Principal Engineer at one of Europe's leading HR tech companies during a critical growth phase — platform direction, engineering standards, cross-team technical authority.

  20. Building Upgrid

    Switzerland

    Co-founding Upgrid — energy infrastructure with a fintech correctness bar.

  21. work 2025–present

    Upgrid — Co-founder & CTO

    Co-founded Upgrid and built the platform from the first commit — SDAT ingestion, allocation, Swiss QR-bill billing, operator workflows. 2k+ members, 250+ communities, 150+ municipalities.

Present

Still building. Still speaking. Based in Basel — writing the next chapter at Upgrid .