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São Paulo, Brazil

• Working with small and midsize businesses (SMB), targeting engagements with priority and strategic customers • Member of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technical field community (AI/ML TFC), working with different AI/ML customer requests across organizations • Leveraging scale engagements to reach long tail customers, which includes events, workshops, webinars and other events to large audiences • Experience as a tech lead, helping early career talents in kicking off on their roles via internal mentorship sessions • Leadership in internal customer acceleration engagements by creating and managing strategical events across different AWS areasAwards • LATAM AI/ML AoD of the Quarter - Q4/2023 • Technical Field Community gold member - Q3/2023, Q4/2023 • TFC Contributor of the Year - 2023

São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Research and development internship regarding smart grids, battery storage, distributed energy resources (DER) and other disruptive technologies related to electrical generation and distribution, in partnership with Brazilian energy companies and universities.Executed projects:••• Fault Location on Electrical Grid • State of the Art documentation and project specifications; • Information traffic using CIM/SoA (Common Information Model/Service-oriented Architecture) bus; • Artificial inteligence application for improving fault location algorithm; • Network topology and complex circuit modelling to predict and locate energy transmission interruption.••• Storage Distributed System for Critical Feeder: • State of the Art documentation and project specifications; • Software solution development for Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS); • Monitoring of electrical and enviromental variables related to electrical energy distribution; • Utility assets optimal management based on multiple parameters.

Belo Horizonte E Região, Brasil

Experienced with analysis and digital circuits project using block diagrams and hardware description language (VHDL), FPGAs and Arduino boards, besides instructing other engineering students.

Software development and support for Localiza Hertz franchising and fleet management systems.• Demand management using agile software development (Scrum and Kanban methodologies);• Hard debugging and testing tasks;• Database requests planning and fixing.

Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais

Experience with electronic circuit boards, mechanical design and robot movement planning.Awarded with 1st and 2nd positions at Campus Party robotics competition (2016).• Electronics circuit board design for robot monitoring and controlling using Arduino and digital/analogic sensors;• Navigation, strategy and movement planning for autonomous robots;• Computer vision application in autonomous vehicles with OpenCV;• Mechanical design for robot pieces and structure using AutoCAD;• Talks and workshops in science and technology events.

Analysis, programming and tests on automation systems. SCADA and HMI development, in addition to electric and electronic circuits maintenance, focused on automotive industry.• Experience with Rocwell PLCs and hardware, such as Allen Bradley models;• Skilled in Rockwell software packages, like RSLogix 5000 and Factory Talk View;• Testing and maintenance on electronic circuits.

Bachelor Of Control And Automation Engineering, 4.15/5

Awarded with the Ronaldo Tadêu Pena Gold Medal for the highest GPA among the graduates in Control and Automation Engineering (2020, 1st.

Industrial Automation Technician