Senior Software Engineer
Sunshine Coast, Australia
Full-stack development, AI integration, and developer tools.
About
"I moved to Australia with limited English and not much else. I built everything from scratch. Not because I had it all figured out, but because standing still was never an option."
I'm a senior software engineer based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, with a Computer Science degree from PUCRS and over a decade of hands-on experience across the full development life cycle. I'm language-agnostic, quick to learn, and comfortable in both backend systems and modern frontends.
I've built government-scale platforms that helped channel economic stimulus across Australia during and beyond the pandemic. I've shipped SaaS products, marketplace engines, payment integrations, and simulation models. I solve hard problems: algorithms, performance tuning, system design, and I enjoy mentoring the people around me along the way.
Outside of code: Grêmio FBPA is my club and the blue runs deep. Yerba mate is a daily ritual. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu keeps me sharp. Football is a lifelong obsession.
Experience
I've built LLM features that generate context-aware messages, classify incoming text, and summarise transcriptions. The work includes structured responses, content filtering, background jobs, and handling model failures. Getting a useful answer is only part of it; the surrounding system has to behave predictably too.
I've built subscription software with booking, recurring billing, member self-service, automated follow-ups, and reporting. Laravel and Vue.js do much of the heavy lifting, with payment integrations and multilingual interfaces connecting the details.
I built a local desktop app and CLI to manage parallel coding-agent sessions. It brings isolated Git worktrees, terminals, task status, and review workflows into one place. Built with Electron, React, TypeScript, and SQLite, and shaped by how I actually work.
How I Work
I write code for the next person who reads it. Which usually includes me, six months later, wondering what I was thinking. Readability over cleverness, every time.
If I can make something impossible rather than unlikely, I will. Constraints in the data model beat validation in the app layer. I'd rather the system won't let you break it than hope you don't.
I've shipped systems where an entire state hits the button at the same time. You find out what performant really means. Every query, every cache miss, every payload. Fast systems aren't lucky. They're earned.
I'd rather a system crash visibly than silently corrupt data. Errors should be expected, surfaced, and recoverable. Silent failures are how you lose trust at 3am.
I've been the one debugging production because someone skipped the tests. A solid test suite isn't overhead. It's what lets you refactor with confidence and deploy without crossed fingers.
I don't collect languages. I learn them when the problem demands it. PHP, Go, Python, TypeScript. Each one is a tool with a purpose, not a trophy.
Stack
PHP and TypeScript daily. Go for performance-sensitive work. Python for experiments and simulations.
PHP/TypeScript/JavaScript/Go/Python/SQL
Laravel is home. Vue and React for interfaces, with Nuxt and Inertia connecting the pieces.
Laravel/Vue.js/React/Nuxt/Inertia.js/Tailwind CSS
LLM features inside real workflows: useful responses, structured data, and predictable failure handling.
OpenAI API/Structured Outputs/Text Classification/Summarisation/Coding-agent Orchestration
Electron when the product belongs on the desktop. Terminals and isolated worktrees for parallel tasks.
Electron/Node.js/Terminal Integration/tmux/Git Worktrees
MySQL for applications, SQLite for local tools, Redis for queues and caching. Docker and AWS for delivery.
MySQL/SQLite/Redis/MongoDB/Docker/AWS
Recurring payments, messaging, email, and authentication, including the webhooks that keep them in sync.
Stripe/Twilio/Resend/OAuth/Webhooks
Backend tests, browser flows, and desktop UI tests. CI before shipping, error monitoring after.
PHPUnit/Playwright/Vitest/GitHub Actions/Sentry
Now
The fundamentals compound.
Algorithms & data structures/Distributed systems/AI/ML engineering pipelines
Building a match simulation engine in Go. Modelling fatigue, tactical shape, set-piece probability.
LLMs in real engineering workflows/Go for performance-critical services/Football simulation engines
The garage. Some ship, some just teach me something.
Micro-SaaS from zero to launch/OSINT & data crawling tools/Monorepo architecture patterns
Contact
Always interested in hearing about new projects, hard problems, or working with people who care about getting it right.