About
I'm Gustavo, 28, from southern Brazil. I'm an AI Automation Engineer at Ontop, a global payroll fintech operating in 150+ countries, where I own the entire automation and AI layer for Customer Success — from prompt design and n8n orchestration to full-stack dashboards and the AWS infrastructure they run on. I design it, build it, deploy it, and keep it running.
On the side, I shipped SafeTaggy, a security SaaS with an autonomous AI pentest agent, from zero to production as a solo founder using vibe coding.
I learned by building things, breaking them, and shipping them. Four years working in the US taught me how to communicate clearly across cultures. Everything else I picked up by doing the work.
Open to AI Engineer, Automation Engineer, and full-stack roles with an applied-AI focus — remote, working with global teams.
Experience
May 2025 — Present
AI Automation Engineer, Customer Success Operations · Ontop · Remote · US company
Own the entire automation and AI layer for Customer Success at a global payroll fintech operating in 150+ countries. Designed and shipped 30+ n8n workflows for churn detection, at-risk alerts, reactivation monitoring, and multichannel client communications across 1,200+ B2B accounts — cutting ~15 hours of manual ops work per week. Also built a natural-language SQL agent on Amazon Redshift and the full-stack internal CS dashboard used daily by 20+ team members.
- n8n
- Next.js
- Claude API
- Salesforce
- Redshift
- AWS
- Python
- Supabase
Mar 2026 — Present
Founder & Solo Engineer · SafeTaggy · Brazil
Founded and shipped a formalized security SaaS (SafeTaggy Tecnologia LTDA) solo — from product and code to Stripe billing, LGPD compliance, and go-to-market. A full company from zero, built with vibe coding. (Technical deep-dive in Projects.)
- Solo founder
- SaaS
- Stripe
- LGPD
Dec 2024 — May 2025
Customer Support & Onboarding · Quiker · Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Led onboarding for enterprise clients on an innovation-management platform — including LATAM Airlines, Bosch, Weidmüller, B3, and Nestlé. Mapped process inefficiencies and contributed to the automation initiatives that shortened onboarding cycle time — the operational foundation I now design and automate end to end.
- CRM
- Onboarding
- Customer Success
Dec 2019 — Sep 2024
International Work Experience · Vail Resorts & Lakeside Beach Grill · United States · Seasonal
Completed four seasonal U.S. work contracts, consistently rehired for performance. Became fluent in English and learned to communicate and deliver across cultures — the foundation for working with the global, distributed teams I build for today.
Projects
Autonomous AI pentest agent
SafeTaggy
A security SaaS I shipped from zero as a solo founder. A Claude-powered agent runs 12 real security tools inside isolated Kali Linux containers with real-time streaming, on top of a 19-check scanner. Stripe billing, scheduled scans, and 289 automated tests.
- Next.js 14
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Redis / BullMQ
- Claude API
- Stripe
- Railway
Customer success platform
Internal CS Dashboard
Built from scratch for the Customer Success org at a global payroll fintech. Pulls Salesforce, Redshift, Zendesk, and Google Sheets into one dashboard — 1,000+ clients, automated daily syncs, health scoring, and adoption tracking — consolidating several tools into one.
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- Supabase
- Drizzle ORM
- Redshift
- Vercel
- Recharts
- shadcn/ui
- Tailwind v4
Churn detection system
Multi-Layer Risk Scoring
A four-layer system that catches churn risk before it's too late. Hourly triggers via n8n, monthly ML predictions on SageMaker, sentiment analysis with RoBERTa, and a weekly Slack digest. Updates the CRM and alerts the team automatically.
- n8n
- AWS SageMaker
- Python
- Salesforce API
- Slack API
- AWS Lambda
- Google Sheets API
Product analytics for customer success
Feature Adoption System
A system that tracks whether clients actually adopt the platform's features. Teams log what they teach clients, and the system measures whether that enablement translated into real adoption — turning training into a measurable signal.
- Next.js
- Supabase
- Redshift
- Amplitude
- Google Sheets API
Natural language to SQL
NL-to-SQL Agent
An AI agent that lets non-technical teammates ask questions in plain English or Portuguese and get back SQL for a Redshift warehouse. 7 schemas, 300+ fields, and 50+ verified queries ready to go — no SQL knowledge needed.
- Claude API
- Redshift
- n8n
- Slack
Enterprise automation suite
30+ n8n Workflows
The automation layer behind a global fintech's Customer Success org — 30+ production n8n workflows connecting Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, Google Sheets, Redshift, and AWS. Churn alerts, reactivation detection, client comms, and risk scoring, all running on their own.
- n8n
- Salesforce API
- Zendesk API
- Slack API
- Google Sheets API
- AWS Lambda
- Python
- JavaScript
AI account manager for the long-tail
WhatsApp AI Chatbot
An AI chatbot on WhatsApp that acts as an account manager for a long-tail portfolio of hundreds of smaller accounts. It sends proactive campaigns, handles support routing, looks up client data in Salesforce in real time, and flags hot leads to sales automatically.
- n8n
- Twilio WhatsApp API
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Salesforce API
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- OpenAI Whisper
- SendGrid
Skills
AI & Automation
- n8n / Workflow Orchestration
- Claude API / GPT / LLM Integration
- Prompt Engineering & AI Agents
- Hermes / OpenClaw (agent frameworks)
- AWS SageMaker / Bedrock
- AWS Lambda
AI-native Development
- Claude Code (CLI + IDE)
- Cursor (AI-first IDE)
- v0 by Vercel
- Vibe Coding workflows
- MCP Servers & Tool Use
- Agentic AI architectures
Full-Stack Development
- Next.js / React
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- Python / FastAPI
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- REST APIs & Webhooks
Data & Infrastructure
- PostgreSQL / Supabase
- AWS Redshift
- Redis / BullMQ
- Docker
- Vercel / Railway
- Drizzle ORM
- Git / GitHub
Integrations & CRM
- Salesforce API
- Zendesk API
- Slack API
- Google Sheets API
- Amplitude
- Stripe
Education
2021 — 2025
B.S. Systems Analysis & Development
Universidade Paulista (UNIP)
Expected 2026
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
In progress
Languages
- Portuguese (native)
- English (fluent)
- Spanish (advanced)