Experience

From digital products reaching millions of LEGO fans to autonomous robots navigating hospital corridors and supermarket aisles.

Professional Experience

Jul 2022Ongoing

Lead IT Engineer

the LEGO Group

LEGO Ideas & LEGO Atlas

  • Led two LEGO Ideas pilots that shipped a modernized submission experience and a fairer search algorithm — giving every fan creation a real chance to be discovered.
  • Delivered LEGO Atlas from zero to one — an internal product used by LEGO's model designers that streamlined processes while fostering a more creative design workflow.
Product DevelopmentAgilePythonTypeScriptReactAWSAzureTerraformPulsar

Sep 2021Jun 2022

Chief Technology Officer

Coalescent Mobile Robotics

Serena

  • Led product development and operations to secure the company's first pilot project with the Salling Group — Denmark's largest supermarket chain.
  • Led a multi-national engineering team with full vertical ownership — from mechanical design and embedded real-time computing to cloud integration and on-site servicing.
  • Introduced the company's first delivery cadence to the board of directors, replacing ad-hoc updates with a transparent roadmap that enabled faster funding decisions.
Product DevelopmentAgileC++PythonTypeScriptAngularAWSMQTTMatlabSolidWorks
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Technical Leader at Blue Ocean Robotics

Feb 2021Aug 2021

Technical Leader

Blue Ocean Robotics

UVD Model C & UVD Model B

  • Led a team of 13 people of 5 different nationalities and multiple technical backgrounds to scale the product from a handful to more than 500 units sold.
  • Secured TUV Rheinland certification — conducting most verification tests, leading recurrent risk assessments, and reviewing compliance against the standards.
AgileC++PythonAnsibleTypeScriptReactGoogle Cloud

Earlier Experience

Jan 2020Jan 2021

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

Blue Ocean Robotics

UVD Model C & UVD Model B

  • Researched and implemented a state-of-the-art trajectory planner that enabled the robot to navigate smoothly in narrow, dynamic, and cluttered hospital environments.
  • Raised manufacturing and product development quality from a new defect every day to robots deploying at client sites without incident.
C++PythonTypeScriptReactSafety PLCJenkinsCANopenFunctional Safety
Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Blue Ocean Robotics

Jan 2019Jan 2026

Co-founder and CEO

dotBot Robotics

Founded dotBot with a colleague in January 2019 with the vision of democratizing the use of robots and making their benefits accessible to all.

  • Filed a patent for a novel hybrid VTOL drone design (Humming.bot) combining multi-rotor precision with fixed-wing range and efficiency.

Jul 2013Dec 2019

Robotics Software Engineer

COPPE/UFRJ

LEAD & LabCon Laboratories — Autonomous drones, subsea robots, mining inspection, and inertially stabilized platforms.

  • Authored two project proposals accepted by Repsol Sinopec and Vale (Brazil's largest mining company), securing 5 years of research funding.
  • Wrote the software system for a mining inspection robot and validated it on-site at Vale's Port of Tubarão, one of the world's largest iron loading ports.
  • Researched and implemented real-time nonlinear control algorithms that ensured target tracking with 0.01 degree precision on an inertially stabilized platform.
  • Designed a high-fidelity simulation environment to validate autonomous take-off and landing on small watercrafts for the ARIEL drone project.
  • Refactored a legacy C/C++ stack to modern C++ standards, improving performance and stability across two subsea robotics projects.
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