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Principal AI Solutions Architect (Agentic AI, RAG, LLMOps)

Lisbon, Portugal
Only remote
Post Graduate Program in AI and Machine Learning, Purdue University Online (2025-2026)
Lisbon, Portugal
Only remote
Post Graduate Program in AI and Machine Learning, Purdue University Online (2025-2026)

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About me

Principal AI Solutions Architect with 21+ years in enterprise architecture, including Fortune 500 delivery at Capgemini. I deliver agentic AI (LangGraph, MCP, A2A), production RAG and LLMOps on AWS Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry. Available immediately, 100% remote from Portugal, B2B.

Java (Programming Language)Data ArchitecturePython (Programming Language)Solution ArchitectureGenerative AI
Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Systems
Expertise in designing and shipping agentic AI systems using LangGraph, MCP, and A2A for multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, guardrails, evaluation, and observability in enterprise production environments.

Production RAG & LLMOps
Over 3 years of production experience delivering RAG pipelines with vector and hybrid retrieval, context engineering, evaluation harnesses, prompt engineering, cost/latency optimization, and AI FinOps on AWS Bedrock and multi-cloud Kubernetes.

Cloud AI Platforms (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Multi-Cloud)
Hands-on delivery of cloud-native AI platforms on AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, GCP Vertex AI, AWS EKS, AKS, and Kubernetes, including Terraform-based multi-cloud platform engineering and CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps.

Microsoft Azure AI Stack
Delivery of enterprise-grade conversational AI on Azure AI Foundry with Azure AI Search (vector, semantic, and hybrid retrieval with grounding), Azure OpenAI, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Entra ID, Bicep, and Azure DevOps CI/CD for compliance-aware AI solutions.

Solution Architecture & Pre-Sales Delivery
End-to-end ownership from solution discovery and architecture through POCs, pilots, and production delivery, including decomposition into ingestion, retrieval, orchestration, and guardrail layers, with launch readiness measured on latency, answer quality, and cost.

Apple Platform & Native Development
Development of native Apple platform applications using Swift 6.2, SwiftUI, Liquid Glass, and AppKit, including on-device LLM and STT integration, real-time transcription and translation for iOS 26 and macOS.

Architecture & Software Development
Deep experience in event-driven architecture, microservices, CQRS, DDD, and API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), with 15+ years of Python and extensive use of Rust, TypeScript, Java, Go, LangChain, FastAPI, Spring Boot, Node.js, and React.

Infrastructure & DevOps
Platform engineering with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis, supporting cloud-native platforms processing 2M+ events per day.

Executive Advisory & AI Governance
Advisory on AI roadmaps, EU AI Act alignment, build-vs-buy decisions, platform operating models, and enterprise governance for senior stakeholders across regulated industries including insurance, financial services, energy, and public sector.

AI-Native Engineering Workflow
Use of Claude Code and Claude Cowork as primary engineering environment, custom MCP servers, multi-agent orchestration with model-family separation, Composio tool routing across GitHub, Vercel, and Cloudflare, with agent-driven triple validation on every production change.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2026

Languages

EnglishFluentPortugueseNative speaker

Project history

Senior AI & Software Architect / Tech Lead

Capgemini - Lisbon, Portugal
Designed multi-agent architectures with LangGraph, MCP, and A2A including guardrails, evaluation, and observability for enterprise production environments. Delivered production RAG pipelines on AWS Bedrock and multi-cloud Kubernetes. Implemented LLMOps foundations and evaluation harnesses. Built cloud-native event-driven platforms processing 2M+ events/day. Led cloud migration reducing infrastructure costs by 45%. Advised senior stakeholders on AI roadmaps and EU AI Act alignment. Led a technical team of 16 engineers. Designed and delivered Microsoft-based conversational assistants on Azure AI Foundry with Azure AI Search for Portuguese public-sector and telecom enterprise clients.

Solutions Architect

Above-Net - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Solution architecture for Java SE and AWS-based enterprise systems including EC2, ELB, and RDS.

Java Architect / Solutions Architect

Druid - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Designed Netflix OSS microservices architecture (Eureka, Hystrix, Config Server, API Gateway) on AWS, with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD.

Java Architect & Agile/DevOps Coach

Noorden Group - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Led SCRUM adoption and CI/CD standardization (Maven, Jenkins) on-site at SulAmerica Seguros, with TDD coaching using JUnit, XMLUnit, and Selenium.

Co-Founder & CTO

Urban Mobility Startup - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Scaled platform from MVP to 50,000+ active users within 18 months, securing R$100K seed funding. Built real-time geolocation system with ML-powered route optimization reducing delivery times by 30%. Led technical team of 8 engineers; designed full-stack architecture using React Native, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

Senior Software Engineer

Petrobras - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Delivered a corporate land-control system at TIC-ENG (Engineering IT & Telecommunications).

Senior Software Engineer

Gazeus Games
Senior Java engineering for online gaming platforms.

Senior Developer Analyst

ProBid Consultoria e Servicos
Senior Java development and systems analysis across consulting engagements.

Senior Software Engineer

Politec Global IT Services
Senior Java engineering on large-scale IT outsourcing programs.

Systems Analyst

Tools Software / TOTVS Financial Services
Systems analysis and Java / PL-SQL development for financial services products.

Certificates

Post Graduate Program in AI and Machine Learning

Purdue University

2026


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