Guilherme Saboia
Software Engineer, 4.5 years. For the past 2 years I've written most of
my code in dialogue with AI. Co-founding a news platform now. Previously
frontend for $51M+ DeFi platform. Next.js, TypeScript, Python.
Skills
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Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash, SQL,
HTML, CSS
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Frameworks: Next.js, React, Node.js, Hono, Vite
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Deployment: Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Supabase,
GitHub Actions
- Tools: Git, Claude Code, Codex
Professional Experience
Co-founder
AI News Platform (Stealth) | 2025 – Present
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Building AI-powered news platform with a partner. Automated RSS
ingestion, AI classification, entity extraction, Wiki-style topic
pages, curated newsletters, admin curation tools.
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Stack: Next.js 15, Supabase, OpenRouter (Gemini 2.5 Flash), Vercel
Founder
Fast Takeoff (Remote) |
2024 – 2025
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Built news.fasttakeoff.org — real-time news platform. Aggregates
from X, Telegram, on-the-ground sources via Discord; generates AI
reports.
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Features:
3D news globe,
executive orders tracker, power network (political/business
relationships), automated social posting
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Stack: Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Gemini via OpenRouter, Clerk,
Stripe
Frontend Developer
DeFi Platform on Arbitrum (Remote) | Jan 2022 – Oct 2023
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Built UI for lending/borrowing and trading interfaces across two
platforms ($51M+ trading volume)
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Tight feedback loops: BugHerd for bug tracking, direct user input
driving iteration
- Remote team across timezones, async via Discord and GitHub
- Stack: TypeScript, React, shadcn/ui, Web3.js
Consultant
Consulting Firm | Nov 2020 – May 2021
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Digital signing project for a major bank: mapped existing document
pipelines across areas, designed the new flow through stakeholder
interviews
Education
Bachelor of Economics
Universidade de São Paulo (FEA-USP) | 2016 - 2020
Exchange Program
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain | Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Professional Development
CS50's Introduction to AI
(Harvard/edX, 2024): Search, knowledge representation, optimization,
neural networks, NLP. Projects: degrees of separation, tictactoe AI,
minesweeper, knights puzzle.
Full Stack Web Programming
(Trybe, 2021–2022): 1,500-hour bootcamp. React, Redux, Node.js, Express,
SQL, MongoDB, Python, algorithms, data structures.
Machine Learning (Stanford/Coursera, 2020): Andrew Ng's
original course. Linear/logistic regression, neural networks, SVM,
k-means, PCA, recommender systems.
Languages
- Portuguese (native)
- English (fluent; daily professional use)
- Spanish (intermediate)
- Italian (intermediate)
Notable Projects
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Telegram Bot — Claude Code via Telegram on Raspberry
Pi. Voice transcription (Groq Whisper), session management, zero-SSH
server management. Python, Flask, Cloudflare Tunnel.
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Semantic Search Tools — Personal knowledge
infrastructure. bsearch (Twitter bookmarks), vsearch (Obsidian vault),
tsearch (browser tabs). Embeddings + vector search.
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Flashcards
— SM-2 spaced repetition app. Country decks (capitals, flags,
currencies). Cloudflare Workers + D1.
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Polymarket SDK — Python SDK for prediction markets.
32 functions, WebSocket, historical data snapshots, 100% test
coverage.
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Video Transcriber
— Live video transcription + AI summarization. Chunks audio for
real-time processing, OpenRouter for model selection.
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AI Infra
— AI infrastructure intelligence: training clusters, chips, power,
interconnects. 36-month forecasts.
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Karpathy Tutorials —
MicroGrad,
MakeMore.
Neural network implementations from scratch.
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Desert Driving
— Three.js + Rapier physics sandbox. Destructible objects, terrain
editing, V8 engine sound synthesis. No build step.
Books & Learning
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Life 3.0 (Max Tegmark), Superintelligence (Nick Bostrom), Rationality
from A to Z (Yudkowsky), Incerto series (Nassim Taleb)