With 20 years of experience, I've joined companies before the structure existed and left with something that lasts. I'm a designer who codes, speaks the language of business, and is the link between design, technology and AI.

I grew up in Bauru, Brazil — famous for a sandwich. I now live in Ivrea, Italy — famous for throwing oranges at each other every Carnival. With my wife and two kids, in the city where Olivetti invented the personal computer.

We didn't end up here by accident. We wanted to give our kids a different kind of life — one where the world feels bigger from the start. Ivrea, with its history, its chaos every Carnival, and its quiet the rest of the year, turned out to be exactly that.

I've been designing digital products for 20 years. But before that, I wrote code — and that part never really left. I just stopped for a while. With AI, I picked it back up and now I do both at the same time, which honestly feels like cheating in the best possible way.

After 22 years away from competitive swimming, I went back.

I won't pretend it was easy. At that first practice with the masters team I just stood at the edge of the pool for a few minutes. But I jumped in. My kids compete too — which means our weekends involve a lot of early alarms, pool bags, and screaming from the bleachers.

There's something about watching your kids race that hits different when you're also racing. We talk about nerves, about bad starts, about the days when your times go backwards and you don't know why. It's the most honest feedback loop I know.

That's the thing about coming back to something after a long time — you remember why you loved it in the first place. And whatever that feeling is, I carry it into the work too.