Hi, I’m Marcos.

I write about safety-critical software using C, C++, and Rust.

From selling ice cream to a PhD

I am a Senior Robotics Engineer with over 15 years of experience building autonomous systems for the aerospace, automotive, and medical sectors. My career includes engineering and technical leadership roles at organizations such as INPE, Safran, and ENGIE.

I hold a PhD in Control and Systems Engineering from Centrale Lille, a Master of Engineering in Computational and Applied Mathematics from INPE, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Sao Francisco University.

My path was not conventional.

It began selling ice cream in Brazil and eventually led to a PhD in France through years of persistence, technical curiosity, failures, a bit of luck, and hands-on problem solving.

Over time, I realized that much of that luck came from developing disciplined decision-making habits by carefully observing failures and understanding how systems break under real-world constraints.

Safety-critical engineering demands the same mindset: reliability is rarely the result of isolated technical decisions, but of rigorous verification, hardened tooling, and development processes designed to reduce failure systematically.

Today, my work focuses on high-integrity perception systems, deterministic software behavior, and hardened development workflows for safety-critical applications.

I am particularly interested in compiler diagnostics, static analysis, and modern tooling that help make reliable software easier to build and maintain.

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