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Brendo Sousa

@brendosousa

AI Forward Deployed Engineer embedding automation with LLM orchestration to cut cycle times and impact P&L.

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can deploy LLM-powered systems inside business units, diagnose operational friction, and ship measurable automation—partnering with non-technical stakeholders until adoption sticks.

I’m an AI Native Engineer and AI Forward Deployed Engineer with 9+ years of progressive experience building and deploying software across Silicon Valley and Latin America’s fastest-growing tech ecosystem. I focus on embedded AI transformation—where I embed inside business units, diagnose operational friction, and ship automation that changes P&L lines.

In my current role at Semantix, I led Cursor-based prototyping that delivered a Contract Risk Analyzer for Vivo, using a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) to flag non-compliant clauses and reduce legal review time from 90 minutes to 12 minutes. Previously at Perplexity, I helped scale the Answer Engine infrastructure before major scale, built a Prompt Optimization Engine to test GPT-3.5 and Claude 1, and improved development velocity by ~30% with tools like GitHub Copilot and Aider.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Lead AI Forward Deployed Engineer

Semantix

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 2 months)

Led a 1-week sprint to build a Contract Risk Analyzer for Vivo's legal department, deploying a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, Pinecone) to flag ANATEL non-compliant clauses; reduced legal review time from 90 minutes to 12 minutes.

Perplexity AI logoPA

AI Product Engineer

Jan 2021 - Feb 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Helped scale the Answer Engine from pre-launch (<15 people) to 10M+ MAUs and a $9B valuation, building an internal Prompt Optimization Engine to test GPT-3.5, Claude 1, and open-source models; improved development velocity by ~30% using Copilot and Aider.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Carnegie Mellon University logoCU

Carnegie Mellon University

Artificial Intelligence

2012 - 2016

Earned a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University from 2012 to 2016.

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