Experience, education & volunteering.

Visiting Researcher

Toronto Metropolitan University · Toronto, ON · CA

• Mitacs funding and affiliation with the Tércio Pacitti Institute for Computational Applications and Research at UFRJ (Brazil).
• ClinicalBr: a bilingual (PT–EN) clinical-reasoning benchmark of 2,892 curated cases across 18 specialties for evaluating the o3 family, MedGemma, Sabiá-4 (Brazil), and DeepSeek.
• LoRA fine-tuning of Qwen3.5-9B and Gemma-4-31B with Axolotl to test the benchmark.
• An agentic RAG pipeline using PubMed APIs and a lightweight 9B LLM for medical tasks, tested against larger models.

Partner — Applied AI Engineer

Ana Health · Brazil

At an early stage of Ana Health’s R&D expansion, we partnered with the Federal University of Minas Gerais and developed national innovation projects awarded major non-dilutive grants (R$5M total) from EMBRAPII and FINEP (Funding Authority for Studies and Projects, Brazil).

• Topic Modeling for Operational Insights, Noisy Text Preprocessing, and Large-Scale Conversational Analysis (mostly WhatsApp messages between us and the customer)
• Data pipelines in Airflow to integrate data sources, including Pipedrive, Twilio, and EHR
• LLM Benchmarking for voice notes and text messages, focused on content summarization and relevance for the Healthcare team
• Personalized Messaging Engine to ingest patient information in Ana Health’s platform
• RAG system to query patient records
• Engagement Score

Partner — Product

Ana Health · Brazil

Ana Health’s core care-delivery platform: a stabilization effort connecting the Twilio Flex contact center, CRM data, and electronic health records. A 4-minute average response-time target supported nearly 1,000 patients and ~30 healthcare professionals.

• Data models and dashboards in Apache Superset, powered by the StarRocks warehouse, for healthcare-team decision-making.
• A patient-churn prediction model for early identification of at-risk patients and proactive healthcare-team outreach.
• Migration from Twilio Flex to an in-house frontend, removing vendor dependency and enabling custom clinical workflows, including patient onboarding.

First Employee — Business Development

Ana Health · São Paulo, BR

Ana Health’s first employee role: a direct partnership with the founders to establish the company’s go-to-market from scratch.

• B2B client prospecting through cold calls, cold emails, and LinkedIn.
• Sales calls and meetings.
• An inbound strategy using Google and Facebook Ads.
• A four-person growth team spanning BDR, SDR, design, and SEO roles.

Engineer

Escuderia UFJF — Formula SAE · Juiz de Fora, MG · BR

A new, small Formula SAE team: project management across five core engineering and operations areas, culminating in its first national competition. A mechanical failure ended the final race.