About me

Since 2011 I've been designing from backpacks to digital products.

From 2014 to 2020, I created and led Caiena's (caiena.net) human-centered design area, fostering the company's design methodology while advising the board and keeping a hands-on approach to designing products for NGOs (e.g. Instituto Natura and Itaú Educação e Trabalho), governments, startups (e.g. Alpop), and private companies (e.g. Ambev, Bayer, and Movida).

During my time at Caiena, my team and I received two iF Design Awards (2018 and 2020) in the UX/Service Design discipline and had a project selected for the "Bienal Iberoamericana de Deseño 2020."

After Caiena, I co-founded Lefty Ventures and led the Business and Product Design practice from October 2020 to May 2022, creating digital products from ideation to production for startup founders and SMBs.

In 2022, I started to work also as a design educator, teaching two courses in the Post-graduation degree on Interaction Design at PUC Campinas University.

Besides teaching at PUCC, I'm currently working on a Doctorate (PhD) research and creating bootstrapped products at Lefty Ventures.

I love creating products, tinkering with code, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.


Updated on January 30, 2026

Experience

PUC Campinas (university)
  • Lecturer
    Aug 2024 → present
  • Lecturer (Contract)
    Mar 2022 → Nov 2022
  • Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Arts, and Design (EAAD)"
Lefty Ventures
  • Cofounder
    Oct 2020 → Present
  • Head of Design
    Oct 2020 → Jun 2022
Squadra
  • Lead Business Designer
    Jun 2022 → Aug 2025
Caiena
  • Sr Design Manager
    Feb 2018 → Oct 2020 (2 yrs 9 mos)
  • Design Manager
    Feb 2017 → Feb 2018 (1 yr 1 mo)
  • Sr Designer
    Sep 2015 → Feb 2017 (1 yr 6 mos)
  • Jr Designer
    Feb 2014 → Sep 2015 (1 yr 8 mos)

Education

  • Undergraduate degree in Product Design
    Istituto Europeo di Design (IED SP)
    2011 → 2014
  • MBA, General Business Management
    Universidade de São Paulo (USP/Esalq)
    2020 → 2021
  • MSc, Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design
    PUC SP (TIDD)
    2023 → 2024
  • Doctorate (PhD), Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design
    PUC SP (TIDD)
    2025 → present

Awards

Skills

  • Industrial and Digital Product Design
  • Interface and User Experience Design
  • Design Leadership and Management
  • Project and Product Management
  • Design Research
  • Workshop Planning and Facilitation
  • Prototyping
  • Webdesign/Web Development (HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby on Rails)>
  • Technical and Creative Writing

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