// Software Engineer & CTO
I help companies ship faster with AI-automated workflows, solid DevOps & CI/CD, and teams that know how to use AI in their daily work. Over 8 years shipping production software, from multiplayer games to autonomous agent infrastructure.
Autonomous agent systems that run real operations: standups, pull requests, research, reporting. LLM integrations, custom tooling, and infrastructure with predictable costs.
Training non-technical teams to use AI tools on their daily tasks, from state-sponsored bootcamps to internal process redesign.
End-to-end pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Automated builds, tests, and store deployments, with five years of it running in production.
Full-stack delivery from architecture to launch (TypeScript, serverless, Unity/XR), plus the management experience to get teams there. CTO at Xarp Reality Labs, President at coop.tech.
A self-hosted multi-agent system where AI agents run daily operations: one ships pull requests autonomously, one runs team standups end-to-end, one handles deep research. Isolated services, custom tooling, predictable costs.
Read case study →An AI education tool used in state-sponsored bootcamps, plus internal adoption programs that turn everyday tasks into AI-assisted workflows, built for people who don't write code.
Read case study →A lightweight Python framework for running autonomous Claude agents on remote Linux machines. It handles conversation memory, conditional triggers, a Discord control surface, and systemd supervision.
// private repository, details on requestBuilding Physical AI: augmented reality, smart mirrors, and behavioural analytics. Xarp is the company behind Dressify. I lead product engineering and applied research, and part of our team operations runs on autonomous AI agents.
Founded the first Portuguese tech cooperative, a startup consortium and technological innovation center. CTVC holds a seat on the EU AI Act Advisory Forum, where it provides technical opinions to the European Commission on AI. It is one of only two cooperatives in the Forum.
Five years shipping a server-authoritative multiplayer game: owned the CI/CD pipelines (automated Play Store and TestFlight deployments with GitHub Actions and Jenkins), serverless backend integration on Azure, and combat & matchmaking systems.
Before AI infrastructure, I spent 8 years shipping multiplayer games. That is where I learned real-time systems, performance budgets, and server-authoritative architecture.
I'm João, a software engineer from Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Over the last decade I've built multiplayer games, XR products, SaaS, and lately the AI agent infrastructure that runs parts of my companies day to day.
I co-founded Xarp Reality Labs (where I'm CTO) and coop.tech, the first Portuguese tech cooperative. I care about software that holds up in production, automation that saves real time, and teaching people to get real value out of AI.
I also write about software, AI, and building things. You can read my posts on Substack.
