Experience

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

Professional Experience

Jul 2022 — Ongoing

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 2021 — Jun 2022

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

Feb 2021 — Aug 2021

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

Jan 2020 — Jan 2021

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

Jan 2019 — Jan 2026

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 2013 — Dec 2019

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.