Jota Junior
Founder at Alude
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJota Junior is a founder and seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building data-driven products and startups from São Paulo. He founded Alude, a Y Combinator‑backed platform simplifying and reducing the cost of financial transactions for Brazilian real estate brokers, and previously scaled Smartlike to R$1M+ ARR before platform risk ended the business. As Head of Data Science at Beblue he led a team of six, architected high-scale ETLs and recommender systems that generated millions in monthly GMV, and shipped market-intelligence tooling to guide national expansion. His early career blended research and engineering at MIT Media Lab and practical machine learning and CV work at RetSKU, reflecting a strong full‑stack and ML foundation. Jota combines entrepreneurial grit with discipline from a military background (Marinha do Brasil) and a Computer Science degree from UFMG plus a Columbia visiting stint, making him equally comfortable with product strategy, technical architecture, and execution. He quietly focuses on building infrastructure that shifts industry workflows rather than chasing publicity.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Batch W20, Batch W20 at Y CombinatorVisiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (26)
screenrc9
hydrogen8
firefox8
websocket8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
nodejs8
puppeteer8
docker-run7
devtools7
amazon-redshift7
docker7
amazon6
typescript6
get-started6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jotajunior/lyla
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 3 months
jotajunior/estru.me
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:30 commits in 6 days
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