Senior full-stack engineer, 25+ years shipping software, Computer Engineering (University of São Paulo). Co-founded Gorila, one of Brazil's leading wealth-management fintechs — chose React Native to ship iOS and Android with a web team in 6 months (100k+ downloads), and as support director cut average ticket resolution from ~7 days to ~2 by rebuilding the workflow as a systems problem.
Currently I run Bookalyze, a BI platform for short-term rental management with paying B2B clients — designed, built, sold and operated solo, end to end. I work async by default: I write decisions down, unblock myself, and ship without supervision.
I treat AI as a thinking tool, not a shortcut — I architect and review, agents execute. This roughly triples my throughput without sacrificing code quality.
Looking for: senior IC role at a product company (not agency/outsourcing), small senior team, async-friendly, USD/EUR contract. Fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Hello, I am Skinner. Senior Backend Engineer with 11+ years building reliability-critical, real-time distributed systems. Co-founder & former CTO, now back on a hands-on IC track by choice. Now moving that reliability-critical foundation toward Applied AI — especially the evaluation and reliability side, making AI outputs trustworthy enough to depend on.
Alongside this, I'm actively building two personal projects: Clearway, an AI accessibility audit pipeline focused on evals and measuring how far its own agents can be trusted, and Vox Personalis, a fine-tuned ASR for Deaf-accented speech.
Looking for: Senior Backend / Applied-AI Engineer roles (IC). Open across stages (startup to established), with a lean toward real-time, distributed, and reliability-critical Applied AI systems.
Location: São Paulo, Brazil (UTC-3 — full overlap with US ET/CT, workable overlap with EU and ANZ)
Remote: Yes (remote-only, worldwide; contractor/B2B preferred)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js (App Router, SSR), Node.js, React Native, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Tailwind, REST/webhook integrations (Stays, Hostaway, WhatsApp/Meta APIs), Metabase, Docker, CI/CD. AI-native workflow: Claude Code/Cursor daily, multi-agent pipelines via Anthropic API, MCP.
Résumé/CV: https://alami.no/cv/dev/
Email: ricardo@alami.no
Senior full-stack engineer, 25+ years shipping software, Computer Engineering (University of São Paulo). Co-founded Gorila, one of Brazil's leading wealth-management fintechs — chose React Native to ship iOS and Android with a web team in 6 months (100k+ downloads), and as support director cut average ticket resolution from ~7 days to ~2 by rebuilding the workflow as a systems problem.
Currently I run Bookalyze, a BI platform for short-term rental management with paying B2B clients — designed, built, sold and operated solo, end to end. I work async by default: I write decisions down, unblock myself, and ship without supervision.
I treat AI as a thinking tool, not a shortcut — I architect and review, agents execute. This roughly triples my throughput without sacrificing code quality. Looking for: senior IC role at a product company (not agency/outsourcing), small senior team, async-friendly, USD/EUR contract. Fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese.