Available for collaboration · Open science
Computational biologist and software engineer building open platforms that turn pathogen genomes into public-health decisions. Creator of AMRnet, TyphiNET, PlasmidNET, and InfectoNET.
01 — About
I'm a Brazilian computational biologist living and working in the UK. My day-to-day sits at the intersection of microbial genomics, web platforms, and global public health — building the tools that make genomic surveillance accessible to anyone, anywhere.
I trained as a computer scientist before moving into bioinformatics — a PhD at the University of São Paulo on the comparative genomics of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, then postdoctoral and engineering roles across three continents. Today I lead the design and development of AMRnet, TyphiNET, PlasmidNET, and InfectoNET — open surveillance dashboards used by ministries, reference labs, and researchers across the globe.
I care a lot about open science, the One Health framing of antimicrobial resistance, and making high-performance bioinformatics affordable for low- and middle-income countries — which is increasingly where my newer work on GPU-accelerated aligners and embedded pipelines lives.
02 — Research
My research uses microbial whole-genome sequencing and software engineering to track, understand, and contain antimicrobial-resistant pathogens — connecting bench, bioinformatics, and public-health practice.
Dashboards and pipelines for tracking resistance in WHO-priority pathogens — Klebsiella, Salmonella, E. coli, M. tuberculosis.
Resistance crosses people, animals, food, and the environment. I work on shared genomic infrastructure that lets us see all of it at once.
Insecticide resistance in Anopheles and Wolbachia endosymbionts — with the Heinz Lab and MalariaGEN.
utilizando sequências curtas pareadas
A monograph (based on my MSc work) demonstrating that bacterial genomes can be assembled ab initio from short 25-nucleotide paired-end reads — one of the foundational bioinformatics challenges of the early NGS era, and where my long love affair with microbial genomics began.
03 — Global collaborations
Published research with colleagues across six continents — surveillance teams, reference labs, universities, ministries of health, and open-source communities. Hover any marker to see the country.
04 — Visitors · Visitantes
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05 — Projects
Open platforms, pipelines, and tools — most of them used in production by public-health teams or in active research.
Live · Flagship
A data-visualisation platform that turns thousands of pathogen genomes into interactive, country-level dashboards of antimicrobial resistance. I lead the system architecture and full-stack development — MERN + AWS, internationalised across multiple languages, and used by surveillance teams from Africa to Latin America.
Live · Co-coordinator
Open dashboard for Salmonella Typhi genomic surveillance, built on data from the Global Typhoid Genomics Consortium. Wellcome- and EU-funded. Used to inform vaccine policy decisions across countries with endemic typhoid.
Live · Co-author
Open command-line tool for typing Klebsiella pneumoniae genomes — MLST, virulence, AMR. The companion Nature Communications paper has been cited over 1,000 times.
Live · Co-author
Consensus long-read assembler for bacterial genomes. Produces near-perfect chromosomes from Nanopore and PacBio data. Widely adopted across the long-read assembly community.
In development
A cloud-native, signal-aware aligner for surveillance-scale microbial genomics — BWT, FM-index, coloured de Bruijn graphs, ML signal correction. Written in Rust, designed to fit on commodity / edge hardware.
In development
Variational-autoencoder approach to AMR-gene copy-number variation across the K. pneumoniae species complex. Where the resistance is, and how much of it.
Live
Genomic-epidemiology dashboard tracking emerging and re-emerging pathogens worldwide — one platform, many threats. Built to make outbreak data legible to clinicians, public-health teams, and the public.
Live
Interactive dashboard for exploring plasmid sequences across species — typing, AMR cargo, mobility. Built on years of work on mobile genetic elements and the way resistance actually travels between bugs.
Live
A Nextflow pipeline for AMR detection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, designed for the Brazilian National TB Reference Network.
Live · Collaboration
Reproducible Snakemake pipeline that recovers metagenomic data from Aedes aegypti whole-genome sequencing reads. With the Heinz Lab at LSTM.
06 — Experience
2023 — Present
System architecture and lead development of AMRnet; co-coordinator of TyphiNET; design and launch of PlasmidNET and InfectoNET. Open science, internationalisation, multi-pathogen surveillance.
2022 — 2023
Wolbachia endosymbionts, Aedes microbiome (MINUUR), MalariaGEN / PAMCA Anopheles genomic-surveillance training.
2020 — 2022
Built the initial TyphiNET dashboard; contributed to Kleborate and Trycycler. Australia.
2015 — 2019
Comparative genomics of multidrug-resistant K. pneumoniae CG258 — IncQ1 plasmids, KPC-2 mobility. FAPESP-funded.
2011 — 2015
Earlier life as an academic computer scientist and IT engineer in Brazil — bridges that still inform how I build research software today.
2009 — 2011
Where computer science met biology, and never let go.
07 — Code
A live feed of my most recently updated public repositories — bioinformatics, web tooling, and occasional side quests.
08 — Writing
Short essays on the things I actually think about — open science, software engineering for research, and the weird shape of the field where they meet.
The years, the rewrites, the people. Lessons on building research software that actually gets used.
Read → Mar 2026 · 9 min readGenomic surveillance shouldn't require a HPC cluster. Notes on Dragon, FM-indices on GPU, and edge bioinformatics.
Read → May 2026 · 3 min readReintroducing myself, the site, and the strange continuity between a PhD in São Paulo and a dashboard in London.
Read →09 — Off the clock
Outside the terminal I keep a camera, a notebook, and a microphone within reach. Some of what that produces ends up here.
Short videos on what I'm working on, what I just read, and how to actually run a pipeline. [TODO — add channel URL]
A side project with friends — bioinformatics, books, film, life in academia. [TODO — add podcast URL]
Conference talks · workshops · interviews
10 — Get in touch
Open to collaborations on genomic surveillance, AMR, public-health platforms, and bioinformatics software. Always happy to talk to students considering computational biology.