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I build AI systemsthat hold up in production.

Agentic pipelines, trading infrastructure at scale, and cloud that costs less than it did before I got there. Seven years, eight companies, one habit: ship the thing, then prove it with a number.

Natan VotreAI Engineer & Full-stack ArchitectFlorianópolis, Brazil
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Receipts

7+
Years shipping
backend · AI · infra
300+
Engineers interviewed
Toptal screener
60k
Concurrent trades
CoinPanel platform
50×
Faster RAG
parallelized pipeline
$30k/mo
Cloud spend cut
Kubernetes rework
3%
Top talent
vetted by Toptal

Highlighted experience — recent & ongoing

01Ongoing

Apex

AI Engineer — Digital Marketing

AI-assisted digital marketing: systems that make content worth sharing and machines that turn attention into revenue.

Make-viral content on one side, machine-to-convert on the other. Same pipeline, both ends measured.

  • LLM agents
  • Python
  • Content pipelines
  • Analytics
02Ongoing · under NDA

Retail Brand

Full-stack Engineer

Identity-driven products for retail consumers: goods that carry the buyer's own mark rather than a generic SKU.

Personalization treated as a product primitive, not a feature bolted on at checkout.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Product engineering
  • Cloud
03Ongoing

e.l.f. Beauty

Engineer — Shopify Storefront

Helped build ELF's new Shopify storefront end to end — internationalization through content personalization.

One storefront that speaks each market's language and shows each visitor a different face.

  • Shopify
  • Hydrogen
  • i18n
  • Personalization
  • TypeScript
04Ongoing

The Form Factory

Engineer — Commerce Delivery

Delivering Shopify storefronts for the agency's roster of client brands.

Agency-side delivery: a different brand, stack quirk and deadline every engagement.

  • Shopify
  • Hydrogen
  • Remix
  • Builder.io
  • AI tooling
05Ongoing

BCG

Forward Deployed Contractor

Embedded with client teams at Boston Consulting Group, building GenAI systems where the work actually happens.

Forward deployed: in the room with the client, shipping against enterprise constraints.

  • GenAI
  • Python
  • Data platforms
  • Cloud

Track record — what was broken, what I built, the number

2025

Cosmos Reader

Senior Full-stack Engineer
Broken
An AI reading platform whose agents scored poorly on its own benchmark.
Built
Rebuilt the agents around disciplined context engineering.
Result
Lifted the proprietary benchmark score to ~90%.
2024

Tavern Research

AI Back-end Engineer (Python)
Broken
Political-marketing content pipelines too slow to be useful.
Built
Agentic pipelines with parallelized retrieval, on Terraform + Kubernetes.
Result
RAG operations ran 50× faster; infra owned end to end.
2022

CoinPanel

Senior Full-stack Engineer
Broken
Retail trading tooling that institutional clients would outgrow instantly.
Built
A React trading platform and a rule engine with no fixed rule ceiling.
Result
Held 60,000 concurrent trades without degrading.
2021

Cielo24

Senior Back-end Developer
Broken
Video transcoding at scale with a cloud bill nobody could defend.
Built
Kubernetes optimization plus Airflow transcoding pipelines.
Result
Cut cloud spend by $30,000 per month.
2020

Verusen

Senior DevOps & Back-end Developer
Broken
Brittle Jenkins workflows and no visibility into code quality.
Built
Migration to Apache Airflow with quality monitoring in the loop.
Result
Reproducible pipelines, measurable code health.
2020

ReliableSite

Back-end Developer
Broken
Routing automation that took five minutes per run.
Built
Decomposed it into microservices.
Result
Same job in under 30 seconds.
2019

Brick Abode

Senior Software Engineer
Broken
Clients needing infrastructure they couldn't staff for.
Built
Microservice deployments and cost-reduction programs.
Result
Where the infra discipline started.

Capability map

AI & LLM

Ship agents that survive real inputs

  • LLM agents
  • Context engineering
  • RAG
  • MCP
  • Claude Agent SDK
  • Evals & benchmarks
  • Prompt architecture

Back-end & Data

Model the domain so it doesn't rot

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Airflow
  • Microservices

Infra & Cloud

Run it cheaply and wake up rested

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Linux
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • CI/CD
  • Observability

Commerce & Front-end

Make the interface earn trust

  • React
  • Next.js
  • GSAP
  • Tailwind
  • Shopify Hydrogen
  • Remix
  • i18n
Natan Votre

Externally validated

300+ engineers interviewed on the other side of that bar. I know what senior looks like because judging it is part of the job.

B.Eng. Electronics — Federal University of Santa Catarina (2014–2019)

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