Gustavo De Pieri

AI Automation Engineer · LLM Agents & RAG

I build AI workflows that run themselves.

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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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

  1. 2021 — 2025

    B.S. Systems Analysis & Development

    Universidade Paulista (UNIP)

  2. Expected 2026

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    In progress

Languages

  • Portuguese (native)
  • English (fluent)
  • Spanish (advanced)