Summary
Jefferson Fernandes is a Senior Product Engineer based in São Paulo with 14 years of hands-on experience building backend-heavy, production-grade web applications. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and relational and NoSQL datastores—PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and MongoDB—having shipped complex systems across startups and product teams. Recently he’s transitioned toward AI engineering, integrating LLMs, vector DBs and RAG pipelines and experimenting with graph databases like Neo4j to surface richer product intelligence. After a long tenure at Vizir and a senior full‑stack role at TridentAB, he now shapes product and engineering at ElectionBuddy, blending product sensibility with implementation rigor. A pragmatic engineer who took a sabbatical to recharge and refocus, he pairs decade-plus system design experience with a clear trajectory toward applied AI in real-world products.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French