João Barbosa
Wiring bits to bring people together.
são paulo → pittsburgh
joaobarbosa@cmu.edu
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What I care most about is how people find each other: the right mentor, the right table, the right problem to spend a life on. Most of what I build is matching, in some disguise.
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Founding engineer at Vento, an AI-native operating system for restaurants. I own architecture across the agentic stack while we scale from pilot to dozens of clients on two continents.
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Computer science at Carnegie Mellon, class of 2029.
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Technical lead at Rede Mulher Empreendedora, matching mentors to 3M+ women entrepreneurs in Brazil. Sub-second, at 100× less than naive LLM calls.
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Come July: real-time risk for XP's credit trading desk, New York.
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Two years as a software engineer at iFood, Latin America's largest delivery platform: 11 services, 600M+ requests a day, 400 thousand restaurants that could not afford a minute of downtime. I built the audit API their partners now call 6,000 times a month.
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Led five friends turning CERN collision data into neural art. First in Latin America, out of five hundred teams.
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Pandemica: an agent-based simulation of a million people that out-forecast two benchmark models. My honors thesis, and the reason I trust simulations a little and respect epidemics a lot.
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Jane Street's FOCUS program, may 2026. (Still thinking about OCaml.)
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Technology fellow at Fundação Estudar; before that, founded a STEM olympiad club and collected national medals with it.
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Thoughts I've tended long enough to show:
My "Pasargadae Space"2023.11
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Lists of books, beliefs, advice, places, and the times I've felt unnaturally lucky. Public storage; take anything.
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This site is my Pasárgada. Perder-se também é caminho.


