Now
Agentic AI development
Leading the adoption of coding agents across engineering — Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode, orchestrated with ADEs like Orca — and shipping LLM features in production with OpenAI, Azure and Mistral models.
Software architect · DSc in Artificial Intelligence
Vitor Machado
I design and build web platforms end to end — TypeScript and Node.js at the core, React on the front, AWS underneath. Today I’m a software architect at Ferreira Costa, leading the adoption of agentic AI across engineering.
01About
Ten years on the web, a doctorate in logic, and a camera never far away.
Most of my career has been on the web. Before Ferreira Costa — Brazil’s second-largest home improvement retailer, where I also help shape the upstream and downstream frameworks other teams build on — I spent nearly four years as tech lead and engineering manager at Passei Direto, a learning platform with more than 20 million study materials, and led a team of fourteen at a health tech startup through the pandemic.
My doctorate is in Artificial Intelligence at PESC/COPPE (UFRJ), on temporal logics for social networks, published in the Journal of Logic and Computation. Brazilian Portuguese is my native language; my English is advanced in writing and speaking (TOEFL ITP 667/677). Away from the keyboard I shoot RAW and draw vector art.
- 10+
- years shipping software
- 14
- engineers led through the pandemic
- DSc
- in Artificial Intelligence, UFRJ
Away from the keyboard
More on Unsplash02Stack
What I build with, today.
TypeScript
Every layer
Node.js
APIs, workers
React
Web and native
Next.js
SSR, SEO
AWS
Lambda, RDS, Edge
PostgreSQL
Modeling, tuning
Docker
Local to prod
Python
Data, ML
Also in the toolbox
- GraphQL
- Elasticsearch
- RabbitMQ
- Pulumi
- GitHub Actions
- Playwright
- Jest
- Angular
- Azure
- Firebase
- Git
03Experience
Where I’ve worked, and what I built there.
From computer vision in 2011 to software architecture today — six companies, most of it on the web.
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2025 – now
Ferreira Costa
The second-largest home improvement retail chain in Brazil, with over a century of tradition and a strong e-commerce presence. Software architect across the product catalog and freight teams.
- Unified database architecture for a complex multi-module platform, with AWS RDS read replicas
- Synchronisation process between PostgreSQL and Oracle instances
- Leading the adoption of agentic AI development (Claude, Codex, OpenCode) across engineering, shaping upstream and downstream frameworks
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2021 – 2025
Passei Direto
A social learning platform with over 20 million study materials, part of Universo Online (UOL). Tech lead across teams of up to 10 people.
- LLM-based question and answer generation from study materials (OpenAI, Azure, Mistral)
- Semantic SEO — structured data built from DBpedia entities over a SPARQL endpoint
- Internal linking hierarchy on Next.js, fed by Elasticsearch recommendations
- Rebuilt study material viewer with infinite scroll and variable paywall rules
- A/B testing framework on CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, backed by Flagr
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2021
Vortigo / OnePercent
A carbon credits and blockchain solutions company. Senior full-stack developer in a team of up to 6 people.
- React-based white-label storefront for NFT assets
- Entirely backed by Firebase — Firestore, Cloud Functions and Authentication
- Material UI front-end with dynamic updates driven by a Redux Saga flow
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2017 – 2021
ProntLife
A Brazilian health tech startup. Joined building Java JAX-RS APIs and AngularJS front-ends, then led and ran scrum for a team of up to 14 people.
- React Native apps for public health programmes, reaching hundreds of municipalities
- Shared mobile library with high test coverage behind a family of white-label apps
- Microservices and crawlers in Node and TypeScript running on AWS Lambda
- Web front-ends in React, Vue and AngularJS over Java JAX-RS APIs
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2014 – 2017
CAPGov
A university-based laboratory that builds systems for the Brazilian government. Started as a developer and went on to lead a small team.
- JavaEE and JSF project development, tested with Selenium WebDriver
- PostgreSQL statistics analysis and query optimisation
- In-house project, team and time management platform in Angular and Node (Express, Sequelize)
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2011 – 2012
Kognitus
A Brazilian startup specialised in automated computer vision solutions.
- Cognex In-Sight hardware and software for vision inspection systems
04Academic
From a P2P protocol to temporal logics for social networks.
2016 – 2023
Doctorate · GPA A
Systems Engineering and Computer Science, DSc
PESC/COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in the Artificial Intelligence concentration area. Dissertation: Temporal logic for social networks.
Journal of Logic and Computation vol. 32, issue 6, Sep 2022, pp. 1088–1108 · doi:10.1093/logcom/exac0232013 – 2016
Master’s · GPA A
Systems Engineering and Computer Science, MSc
PESC/COPPE, UFRJ. Thesis: Populational Announcement Logic (PPAL), a fuzzy dynamic epistemic logic — code on GitHub. Published at ENIAC 2015.
2008 – 2014
Bachelor’s · GPA 8.0
Computer Science, BSc
Computer Science Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Thesis: PushPeer P2P Protocol, a peer-to-peer protocol with caching.
05Contact
Let’s talk.
An opportunity, a project, or something I wrote — the best way to reach me is a message on LinkedIn. I read everything that arrives.