Professional Experience - Thiago Peraro
Professional Experience
A path across research, development and entrepreneurship
My career combines solid back-end development, cutting-edge academic research, and entrepreneurial leadership — from mission-critical systems for public agencies to award-winning AI solutions.
Current Roles
Positions and responsibilities
Sole Tech Lead — Count on Sheep
Count on Sheep (USA) | Jan 2026 – present
• Sole technical owner of the company (US crypto tax consulting)
• Built the onboarding-AI agent from scratch and deployed it to production
• Coordinates onboarding end to end through an extraction pipeline with 7 LangGraph agents across 3 parallel phases
• Real-time STT (AWS Transcribe Streaming + KWS sidecar + LLM corrector)
• Integrations with HubSpot, DocuSign, Stripe and Gmail
NLP Researcher — CEIA-UFG (Koru Project)
CEIA-UFG & AKCIT | Dec 2024 – present • NLP researcher on the Koru Project — multi-agent system for soft-skill and leadership assessment • LangGraph architecture (Supervisor, StateGraph) • Owner of the koru-dashboard (Streamlit + Plotly + TimescaleDB) • Adversarial Red Team testing with DeepTeam (prompt injection) • Maintains the team's service infrastructure
CNPq Fellow — Sobrevidas Project
CNPq | 2024 – present • NLP researcher — CNPq fellow • Lead of the AI team at the Sobrevidas Project (oral cancer / SUS) • Co-author of the paper awarded best in Brazil at SBCAS 2025 (tools category) • Distinct from Koru — focus on public health and epidemiological surveillance
Community Builder
Go.IAs & Magnatas.hub | 2023 – present • Community builder at Go.IAs (500+ members) — events, networking and dissemination of university research • Co-founder and leader of Magnatas.hub (~80–90 entrepreneurs) • Regular speaker at AI and entrepreneurship events • Mentoring and local ecosystem development
Career Timeline
Highlights across the years
Jan 2026 – present | Sole Tech Lead
Count on Sheep — US Crypto Tax Consulting
Sole person responsible for the entire technology stack. Built onboarding-AI (FastAPI) from scratch and deployed it to production: an AI agent that coordinates onboarding end to end. The solution combines an extraction pipeline with 7 LangGraph agents across 3 parallel phases, real-time STT with AWS Transcribe Streaming, and integrations with HubSpot, DocuSign, Stripe and Gmail.
Dec 2024 – present | NLP Researcher (CEIA)
CEIA-UFG & AKCIT — Koru Project NLP researcher on the Koru Project, a LangGraph-based multi-agent system for soft-skill and leadership assessment. Owner of the koru-dashboard (Streamlit + Plotly + TimescaleDB) and adversarial Red Team tests with DeepTeam. Started as NLP Junior, progressed to NLP Researcher.
2024 – present | CNPq Fellow (Sobrevidas Project)
CNPq — Sobrevidas Project (SUS) CNPq fellow and lead of the AI team at the Sobrevidas Project — a SUS-integrated chatbot for oral cancer screening. Co-author of the paper awarded best in Brazil at SBCAS 2025 (tools category). Distinct from Koru — focus on public health and NLP for epidemiological surveillance.
Mar 2024 – Dec 2025 | Founder & CEO · Clivia (closed)
Clivia — AI for Medical Clinics Founded and operated Clivia, a multi-agent LLM platform for medical clinics (intelligent SDR via WhatsApp). Architected the full stack — FastAPI, LangGraph Supervisor (migrated from CrewAI), self-hosted LiteLLM proxy, Redis checkpointer, Docker Swarm with 40+ containers in production. Closed in Dec 2025.
Oct 2023 – Oct 2024 | Researcher
EMBRAPII — Brazilian Agency for Industrial Research and Innovation Multidisciplinary project in AI, Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship. Led a team of 7 building the EdTech "Minha Aula de Excelência". Applied Lean, Stage-Gate, Sprints, ISO 12207 and SWEBOK. Recognized for leadership and performance among 60 program fellows.
Jan–Aug 2024 / Jan–Feb 2025 | Back-end Developer
Totem TI — outsourced at GoiásPrev Back-end development for GoiásPrev (state pension agency). Java, Spring, JSP, JasperReports. Requirements engineering, microservices architecture and ISO 12207 / SWEBOK compliance.
2023 – present | Community Leader
Go.IAs & Magnatas.hub Co-founded Magnatas.hub and build the Go.IAs community with events, workshops and networking in AI and entrepreneurship in Goiânia.
Jan 2022 – Aug 2024 | Back-end Developer
GoiásPrev / Minsait — State Government Intern promoted to full-time developer. Back-end for critical pension systems serving thousands of public servants. Java 8/11, Spring Boot, JSP, iReport, JDBC. High availability and security in government systems.
2019 – present | Academic Training
Federal University of Goiás B.Sc. in Computer Science with a back-end focus. Research and extension projects; strong foundations in algorithms, data structures and software engineering.
2024 – present | Ongoing Research
Artificial Intelligence and LLMs Continuous investigation of language models and real applications — multi-agent systems (LangGraph), MCP (Model Context Protocol, custom client and FastMCP server), LLMOps (LiteLLM, OpenLit, Langfuse) and Red Team (DeepTeam, Deepeval). Ethics and social impact focus.
Technical Skills
Tech stack and specialized skills
Back-end Development: • Java & Spring Boot — 4+ years; Flyway (60+ migrations), RabbitMQ (Spring AMQP), Spring Security OAuth2 (Keycloak RS256/JWKs) • Python — FastAPI, Pydantic v2, asyncio, Flask • RESTful APIs and microservices — design and implementation of scalable services • Databases — PostgreSQL, Supabase, pgvector, MySQL, Redis
AI and Multi-agent Systems:
• LangGraph — Supervisor, StateGraph, RedisSaver and AsyncPostgresSaver checkpointers
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) — custom client and FastMCP server implemented from scratch
• CrewAI, LangChain (LCEL), Agno — agent orchestration
• RAG / GraphRAG — pgvector, FAISS, Supabase vector store, adaptive chunking with n-gram overlap
• Custom Text2SQL / GenBI using LangChain create_sql_agent
LLMOps, Observability and Guardrails: • LiteLLM — self-hosted proxy with router and fallback • Langfuse — distributed tracing with CallbackHandler + llm-as-a-judge Evaluator • OpenLit, Helicone — cost/latency/tokens • DeepTeam — adversarial Red Team (prompt injection) • Deepeval — guardrails for toxicity, bias and hate speech • PydanticAI — structured validation of agent outputs • OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana
Real-time STT: • AWS Transcribe Streaming — WebSocket with session state machine (idle/connecting/streaming/reconnecting), KWS sidecar, 4-hour limit • Deepgram Nova-3 — STT via WebSocket streaming • OpenAI Whisper — offline transcription • LLM corrector — real-time correction of technical terms
Infrastructure and DevOps: • Docker Swarm — 40+ containers orchestrated in production (Clivia) • GitOps CI/CD — GitHub Actions → Docker Hub → Portainer webhook • Ollama — local inference with multiple instances
Leadership & Management: • Technical leadership — sole tech owner at Count on Sheep; CEO of Clivia for ~21 months • Community Building — Go.IAs (500+ members), Magnatas.hub (~80–90) • Public Speaking — regular speaker at AI and entrepreneurship events
Awards & Recognition
Main professional awards and recognitions
🌟 1st AI Brasil Hero (2026) Recognized as the 1st AI Brasil Hero at AI Brasil / CEIA Open Day, after speaking on Second Brain + AI OS, hyper-productivity and agentic coding. Award presented by Juliano Kimura.
🏆 SBCAS 2025 — Best Paper (Brazil) Sobrevidas paper recognized as best in the Brazilian Symposium on Applied Computing in Health 2025 (tools category).
🎓 CNPq Fellow Selected by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development for research in applied AI for health (Sobrevidas Project).
🎖️ EMBRAPII — Standout Leader Recognized as a standout leader among 60 fellows of the EMBRAPII program, mentored by 8 PhD advisors across AI, Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship.
🚀 AI Startup Founder Founded and operated Clivia (Mar 2024 – Dec 2025), a multi-agent healthtech platform — end-to-end architecture on Docker Swarm with 40+ containers in production.
👥 Community Leader Co-founder of Magnatas.hub and leader at Go.IAs (500+ members), contributing to the innovation ecosystem in Goiânia.
🎤 Recognized Speaker Speaker at AI Brasil 2026 (CEIA Open Day / Go.IAs Experience) and a frequent speaker on ethical AI, hyper-productivity and innovative product development.