Hi, I’m Marcos.

I write about mastering C, C++, and Rust for safety-critical embedded systems.

From selling ice cream to a PhD

As a Senior Robotics Engineer with over 15 years of experience developing autonomous systems for the medical, aerospace, and defense sectors, I have led R&D and engineering at Malcom Medica, INPE, Safran, and ENGIE.

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.

Education

2018 Doctor of Philosophy

Control and Systems Engineering, Centrale Lille, France.

2013 Master of Engineering

Computational and Applied Mathematics, INPE, Brazil.

2010 Bachelor of Engineering

Computer Engineering, Universidade São Francisco, Brazil.