About

My first code was for my family’s medical accounting office, where I worked in high school. Most of the job was paperwork done by hand, so I taught myself Python to automate some of it. Then I went to Insper in São Paulo to pursue a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering.

Outside class, I was on Insper Dynamics, the student team that built two generations of a search-and-rescue robot. Our robots won Best in Class for Sensing at RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok . In early 2023 I became president of the college’s robotics and AI club, and that July we won Best in Class for Exploration, the autonomous mapping test, at RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux . For my capstone I did multi-cloud security for PinPag, a Brazilian payments company, on their live platform.

I also studied away from Insper twice. In the summer of 2024 I was a visiting student at Stanford, where I took courses in High-Performance Computing and Entrepreneurship and interviewed John L. Hennessy for 30 minutes. He was Stanford’s president from 2000 to 2016 and shared the 2017 Turing Award with David Patterson. Then, in the spring of 2025, I did an exchange program at Olin and Babson, outside Boston. During that semester I started OpenGiving with two American friends. It’s a marketplace where part of every sale goes to a fundraising campaign. I wrote all of its code, and I’ve been on leave from it since I started at Brown.

In September 2025 I joined , a Boston startup that makes software for construction crews, as its first engineering hire. The first version of their iOS app, their main product, already existed. I worked on it for ten months, and in February 2026 I started rewriting it from scratch, which taught me a lot about UX in mobile apps. I also supported the web, backend and cloud work. I left in July 2026.

I’m pursuing an M.Sc. in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Brown, and I finish in May 2027.

But I’m still building my technical skills. This term I’m taking Systems Security at Harvard University (due to Brown offering cross-registration), and I’m studying for the CompTIA Security+ certification.

Languages. Swift, Python, TypeScript, Go, Kotlin, C and C++.

Building. SwiftUI and WidgetKit, FastAPI, Next.js and Astro, Jetpack Compose, PostgreSQL with Prisma, GraphQL, Stripe Connect and PayPal.

Running it. AWS, Railway, Vercel, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry and Grafana.

Security. Semgrep in CI, Wazuh, ModSecurity, and secret scanning as a required check.

I speak Portuguese and English natively, Spanish well enough to work in, and a little Swedish. Outside Brazil and the US, I’ve lived in Stockholm and Madrid , for two months each.

In my free time, I play pickup soccer whenever I can find a game, or you’ll see me playing Magic: The Gathering or retro games (yes, I love my GBA!).

Write to me at me@enriccogemha.dev, or find me on GitHub and LinkedIn.