Hi, I’m Marcos.

I help engineers design, build, and defend safety-critical systems in Rust and C++.

From selling ice cream to a PhD

I’m a Senior Robotics Engineer with over 15 years of experience building autonomous systems for the aerospace, defense, and medical sectors, including leading roles at INPE, Safran, and ENGIE.

I hold a PhD in Control and Systems Engineering from Centrale Lille (2018), a Master of Engineering in Computational and Applied Mathematics from INPE (2013), and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Universidade São Francisco (2010).

My path wasn’t conventional.

It started with selling ice cream in Brazil and led to a PhD in France, a journey built on perseverance, failures, and a bit of luck.

In reality, that luck was earned through a rigorous decision-making system I honed by observing failures. I have found that safety-critical engineering requires this same practical mental model, which is rarely taught in theoretical courses.

This is why I am now building a professional training framework that qualifies engineers as specialists in safety-critical design for the automotive, aerospace, defense, and medical industries.

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