Summary
Hugo Braga is a Product Owner and founder with 12 years of experience blending rigorous academic research (PhD in Computer Science) with hands-on full-stack AI engineering and startup building. He leads mission-critical judicial systems at the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Amazonas while co-founding LexiFlow to deliver generative AI workflows that automate legal drafting and document interpretation. His technical toolkit spans PyTorch/Lightning, advanced NLP, MLOps, Terraform, AWS/Azure and prompt engineering for large models, enabling end-to-end delivery from prototype to secure, scalable production. Prior roles in fintech and public sector projects show a rare combination of regulatory domain expertise and entrepreneurial grit. Hugo’s research background in combinatorial optimization and spanner problems informs a systematic approach to identifying and solving deep market frictions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate (Dr.), Computer Science, Doctorate (Dr.), Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Masters, Mechatronics, Masters, Mechatronics at Universidade Federal da Bahia
Portuguese, English