Summary
Francisco Castro (Chico) is a CTO and full‑stack software engineer with nine years building digital products across games, web, mobile, desktop and embedded systems, currently leading Brendi’s technology strategy. He blends hands‑on frontend and backend expertise (React, Next.js, Vue, Node, Django, .NET) with cloud and data architecture on AWS/GCP (Postgres, BigQuery, Firestore, ElasticSearch). In recent years he’s focused on applied AI—LLM systems, agentic workflows, RAG, fine‑tuning and NLP—bringing research‑grade techniques into product features. His background in game development and aerospace engineering gives him a distinctive systems thinking approach to UX, gamification and resilient architectures. Passionate about product design and personal growth, he routinely bridges technical direction with product and team leadership to deliver impactful, user‑centered solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado em Engenharia Engenharia Aeroespacial, Bacharelado em Engenharia Engenharia Aeroespacial at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Ensino Médio, Ensino Médio at Colégio Militar de Fortaleza
Portuguese, English