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"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play." - Alan Watts

• First Website: fly.to/bytegirl (with this sick Flash effect).

• First AI Award: in high school, first place at the Brazilian Science and Fair Technology (MOSTRATEC). A medical expert system written in Delphi.

• First and Second College Degree: Computer Engineering at Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo. Then I transferred and received a B.Sc. in Physics at the Institute of Physics.

• First Undergrad Research Scholarship: for the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological, where I studied Cosmology (more specifically, the equations of dark matter and dark energy), under the supervision of Prof. Elcio Abdalla.

• Second Undergrad Research Scholarship: summer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, studying Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei, with Prof. Duilia F. de Mello and Prof. Steve Kraemer.

• First Ph.D.: in Theoretical Physics (started with String Theory and Quantum Field Theory and ended up with Astrophysics) at Stony Brook University, New York (with a full-tuition scholarship).

• Second Website: graduate website.

• First Graduate Research Scholarship: at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, where I researched the Physics of Quark-Gluon Plasmas in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), with Prof. Barbara Jacak.

• Second Graduate Research Scholarship: the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science, where I developed Monte Carlo simulations and data analysis to find the Physics of Neutron Stars, with Prof. Christopher Lee Fryer, Prof. Alan Calder, and Prof. James M. Lattimer.

• Other Scholarships: the American Astronomical Society, HPC Xsede Summer School '13, CERN Winter School '09, and the well-regarded NYC programmer retreat Recurse Center'14 (formerly Hacker School).

• First Published Book: book on Group Theory, which seems to be popular among graduate students at CALTECH (at least, that's what Prof. Maria Spiropulu told me).

• Second Published Book: book on Python and Algorithms. In 2015, Hanbit Media, Inc. bought my book to have it translated into Korean.

• Peer-reviewed Articles: scientific articles published in Nuclear, Astrophysics, and Cosmology.

• Other Papers and Open-source Projects: Quantum Computing, Quantum Topological Field Theory, Machine Learning, PenTesting with 1.2k+ stars, GCP security.

• First Talk at DEF CON: hacking quantum cryptography at DEF CON's cryptovillage.

• First and Second CTF teams: Joel Eriksson's team, HackingForSoju (23th in 2014), and Snatch The Root (29th in 2014).

• Third Website: singularity.sh.

• First Job as a Software Engineer: security team at Yelp. I created an in-house machine learning software for DNS/Web endpoint data analysis and worked on several infrastructure and security tasks.

• First Job as a Senior Software Engineer: at the Core OS (security) team at Apple for a year, under Ivan Krstić's supervision, where I developed software to help with Apple's internal security and incident response, I researched iOS Security hardening, and I helped writing Apple's Deep Learning toolkit for richer data augmentation for image recognition.

• Second Job as a Senior Software Engineer: at Etsy for a year and a half, at Will Rogers's and Ben Hughes's team. I developed an incident response infrastructure for Etsy's fleet, with OSQuery, and implemented fraud detection analytics.

• First Job at a Startup: at Surfline, where I built an end-to-end pipeline & software for surfers to retrieve clips of the waves they caught (from over 500+ cameras worldwide), and I learned how they maintain a worldwide camera infrastructure.

• First Job as a Research Manager: at Quantum Gravity Research Institute, working with Klee Irwin and his team to simulate a quantum gravitational theory on quasicrystals. I taught Agile and DevOps practices for a team of 10+ scientists.

• First Job at an E-commerce Startup: at Reaction Commerce, developing infrastructure and Kubernetes stuff.

• First Company I Funded: Curiee, a non-profit language-agnostic destination for hackers to learn, play, and publish quantum computing research. We even competed at the Ycombinator hackathon once.

• Third Job at a Startup: at Zapata Computing, as a Quantum Platform Engineer, doing some quantum machine learning.

• Sports: Snowboarding, skateboarding, and surf.

• Side Projects: Film producing.

• Cities I lived: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Malibu, Oahu, Maui, San Diego, Washington DC, Long Island, Santiago, and Sao Paulo.

• Current Website: Innermost Limits.