Dantes Fernandes
@dantesfernandes
Engineering Manager at Pattern Digital building SimTutor, a clinical education platform, and putting AI document extraction into production for paying customers.
New ZealandWhat I'm looking for
At Pattern Digital, I lead development across client engagements and work hands-on on SimTutor, a medical simulation platform for clinical educators. I delivered LTI and SCORM integrations that opened sales to universities and hospitals, and added LLM-powered features with Langfuse observability.
With ITERON AI / FastFlowTech, I built ComexAI, a multi-tenant document extraction product with live paying customers. Its pipeline extracts text, fields and tables from trade documents, with per-customer cost tracking.
I've managed engineering teams at Pattern Digital, Allied Brasil, SimTutor and the Public Ministry of Santa Catarina. I want to keep building reliable software that helps clinicians, combining small-team leadership with hands-on work on AI tools.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder and Engineering Lead
ITERON AI / FastFlowTech
Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Founded and led a side venture building a multi-tenant AI document extraction product with live paying customers. Built shared platform services and deployed with GitOps on Kubernetes.
Technical Lead / Head of Development
Pattern Digital
Dec 2020 - Present (5 years 10 months)
Technical leadership across a portfolio of 50+ client engagements, with commercial accountability for estimation, delivery, and client relationships. Led development of a medical simulation platform and delivered integrations and AI features.
Tech Lead
Allied Brasil
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 4 months)
Led engineering for Brazil's largest electronics distributor, managing 3 squads of about 12 engineers. Managed team consolidation, established engineering practices, and delivered backend services and integrations.
Head of Development
SimTutor
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 5 months)
Led the technology function for an EdTech company delivering medical simulation courses. Delivered SCORM and LTI integrations, designed permissions and analytics systems, and resolved critical production issues.
Team Leader / Senior Developer
Public Ministry of Santa Catarina (MPSC)
Sep 2011 - Sep 2017 (6 years)
Managed 5 developers and 2 interns, responsible for 30+ .NET MVC systems and 50+ legacy systems. Led modernisation to MVC with Entity Framework and defined CI/CD approach.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
NZ Institute of Education
Postgraduate Diploma, Applied Business
2017 - 2018
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Business from NZ Institute of Education, completed in 2018.
Gama Filho University
Postgraduate Certificate, Strategic Management of IT
2011 - 2013
Postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Management of IT from Gama Filho University, completed in 2013.
University of Southern Santa Catarina
Bachelor, Information Systems
2006 - 2010
Bachelor of Information Systems from the University of Southern Santa Catarina, completed in 2010.
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, Azure Development
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate certification.
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