About

When I was a kid, I'd spend hours going down Wikipedia rabbit holes and tinkering with whatever I could get running on the family desktop. Mostly games.

Then, during my final year of secondary school, I took Aplicações Informáticas B. That's where I wrote my first real program: a calculator in Pascal. Yes, Pascal. And not that long ago either. I still have the code on a random SSD somewhere. I also dabbled in Visual Basic around the same time.

University followed. Computer Science and Engineering. I kept finding myself losing track of time debugging something that wouldn't give. That's what drew me toward backend engineering and distributed systems.

I'm especially interested in backend engineering and how systems evolve at scale: the architecture decisions, the tradeoffs, the things that only reveal themselves under load. I'm also drawn to the human side of computing, particularly human-computer interaction and information visualization. My Master's thesis was on LLMs and HCI, exploring how interactive, non-linear interfaces can enhance the reliability of large language models by linking them to external knowledge sources. I also care about self-hosting, data ownership, and free and open source software.

I'm always open to a chat over coffee or tea, about systems, sci-fi ,or photography. Say hello.