Brazilian, nomad. Born in Jundiaí, lived in Campo Limpo Paulista, Mogi-Mirim, Socorro, Itapira, Mogi-Guaçu, Campinas, São Carlos, Paris, Lisbon, Zürich, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Irvine - now settled in Colorado. Not interested in relocating unless the destination is Hawaii or Portugal.Studied Informatics at COTUCA (Unicamp) and studied Computer Engineering at EESC (USP) in São Carlos; studied Robotics and Embedded Systems at ENSTA and Artificial Intelligence and Decision at UPMC (Paris VI), in Paris. Last was a PhD dropout at ISR/IST, in Lisbon.Worked as a researcher (LABIC-ICMC/USP and ISR/IST), development engineer (Skysoft), adjunct professor (ESML/IPL), software engineer (Thousand Eyes), and site reliability engineer (Google). Now works as a software engineer (Google).Interested in artificial intelligence, bio-inspired computing, robotics, embedded systems and distributed systems, open source software, software development, system administration, web development and entrepreneurship opportunities.Brazilian Portuguese mother tongue, proficient in English and French, understand Spanish, basic notions of German. Fluent in C, C++, git, LaTeX, Linux administration, Network analysis, Python. Familiar with Ant Colony Optimization, ARP, ASN.1, Automake, Automatic code generation, Bash script, CMake, Code review process, CSV, Ethernet, Fuzzy systems, Gentoo Linux optimization, Haskell, libpcap, Object-Oriented Programming, openMosix, Probabilistic Robotics, PyUnit, Relational databases, ROS, SNMP, SQL, SVN, Testing techniques. Acquainted with Ant, BASIC, Compiler optimization, Delphi, Google Chrome plugins, HTML, Java, JSP, Ladder, Linux kernel hacking, Lucid Synchrone, Lustre, Noise reduction techniques, PASCAL, PHP, Rails, Ruby, Scheme, Tomcat, URBI, Visual Basic, VxWorks, Weka, Wordpress, x86 Assembly, XML.Specialties: Artificial Intelligence, Bio-inspired computing, Robotics, Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems, Open Source Software, System Administration, Network programming.