Brendo Sousa
@brendosousa
AI Forward Deployed Engineer embedding automation with LLM orchestration to cut cycle times and impact P&L.
BrazilWhat I'm looking for
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
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.
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.
Built Python microservices for an internal ML Feature Store used by 50+ data scientists, serving fraud-detection real-time features at 10,000+ TPS with <50ms latency.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Carnegie Mellon University
Artificial Intelligence
2012 - 2016
Earned a bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University from 2012 to 2016.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
BrazilAuthorized to work in
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