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The last 8 years of my life have been entirely dedicated to the development, maintenance, and protection of public goods. I collaborated with (and learned from) a great range of publicly funded and community-driven projects, initiatives, and organizations, from local projects such as Big Open Source Sibling — conceptualized and organized by alums of the program I lead today — to the very backbone of Wikimedia projects. All of that was only possible because I am, first and foremost, a systems practitioner: I understand that systemic problems require systems thinking so we can achieve true and radical change.

My current role

I’m the lead program organizer of Outreachy, a Software Freedom Conservancy initiative.

• I design, implement and coordinate all operational, managerial, and strategic core processes and policies of the program, continuously evaluating and enhancing them via employment of holistic analysis;
• I lead and manage a cross-functional team of 4 program organizers. We onboard, support, and manage an average of 30 mentoring organizations, 150 mentors, 60 coordinators, 5,000 applicants, and 80 interns per year;
• Under my tenure, Outreachy has fostered 695 successful internships in critical free and open source digital infrastructure, humanitarian, and open science initiatives.

My dream roles

• Managing teams at a human-centered organization with a perfect mixture of strategic planning, decision-making, compassionate leadership, and critical bridge building;
• Reconciling and consolidating the collective understanding of free and open source ecosystems, supporting organizations funding or offering critical initiatives in the field.

My intersectional interests

• Ontology of free and open ecosystems;
• Process management and improvement;
• Governance and decision-making structures;
• Strategic planning, monitoring, and execution;
• Information systems management;
• Cybersecurity and cyber resilience.

My boundaries

• Any prospect role has to be completely remote. I’ve worked remotely for almost 8 years; I’ll keep working remotely for many more;
• My availability for travel is negotiable, but constrained by my university’s academic calendar. I’m available to travel from January to March and in July.

My previous professional experience

• From August 2019 to January 2021, I overhauled Open Collective’s public-facing help and contribution documentation by implementing a holistic persona-based technical writing philosophy, standardizing terminology, introducing a style guide, and addressing internal and external structural issues such as link rot;
• From April 2018 to June 2019, I interweaved the worlds of Wikimedia projects focused on cultural preservation and Tainacan, a free and open source software project funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, partnering with Ibram (Brazilian Institute of Museums), and developed by L3P, a division of MediaLab/UFG;
• From December 2017 to March 2018, I worked with two Wikimedia community liaisons — Johan Jönsson and Benoît Evellin. I examined the technical writing culture of the Wikimedia community, and tested different outreach strategies with the goal of encouraging translators (new or established) to contribute to the localization of user guides on MediaWiki.org.

My academic background

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems at Universidade Federal de Goiás. Expected graduation in either December 2025 or June 2026;
• Pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Federal de Goiás from 2016 to 2018.

My certifications

• Infrastructure Inspector, issued by Infuse (2024);
• Code of Conduct Enforcement, issued by OtterTech (2022);
• Mozilla Open Leaders, issued by Mozilla Foundation (2018);
• Software Engineering for Avionics, issued by Universidade Federal de Goiás (2015).

My public projects

• Brazilian Portuguese localization of the Infuse website and their Malicious Infrastructure learning path (2024);
• Brazilian Portuguese translation of the expert brochure of Free Software Foundation Europe’s Public Money, Public Code campaign (2019);
• Brazilian Portuguese localization of Mastodon and related free and open source projects such as Tusky (2017 - 2018).

My honors

• Keynote speaker at FOSSY 2023 and FOSDEM 2024;
• Recipient of an Inaugural Infuse Learner Fellowship, issued by Internews Network (2024);
• Recipient of a Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship (2020).