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Luciano Souza

For almost 30 years I have turned ideas into digital products people use.

My own products, platforms for clients, and a pile of experiments.

I have built for XP · Youse · Microsoft · Volkswagen · Pão de Açúcar

Career

  1. 1998–2006
    Grupo TV1

    Interfaces for Volkswagen, Microsoft, Pão de Açúcar and Instituto Ayrton Senna. From Ibest winner to a Cannes Lions shortlist.

  2. 2008–2012
    Xlab e Bolha

    Front-end for big brands and the early internet of things. I launched Instame, which reached 3 million views a month.

  3. 2013–2016
    Freelancer e Digiclick

    My first personal projects (like pipoca.me) and clients such as Bosch, Skil and Marisa.

  4. 2016–2018
    Youse

    Senior front-end at the first fully digital insurer in Brazil.

  5. 2018–2022
    XP Inc.

    Four years at the largest brokerage in the country. I built from scratch the interface of an FX trading system, straight from New York.

  6. Since 2022
    MELVER

    I came in as CTO and partner: I led technology and product, from the roadmap to the architecture, built the engineering team and took the schools program from concept to operation. Today I am a Staff Engineer, on full-stack and applied AI inside the products.

Now

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MELVER

I helped build MELVER from its earliest days: I am a partner, and we built from scratch the education platform for the financial market (certifications, career courses and financial education in schools), which has passed 500 thousand students and 2 million enrollments. I am still there as a Staff Engineer, focused on what I enjoy most: code, accessibility and product quality.

Products

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Postato

Instagram comments and DMs in one inbox, with replies in your voice

Promised something in the comments? Postato remembers for you

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Imobler

The neighborhood around a property seen from above, so the client knows the area before the visit

The neighborhood seen before the visit

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Intelibot

An AI assistant trained on the company’s own data, on the site and on WhatsApp

Already serving paying customers, 24 hours a day

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Dita

Voice dictation on the Mac: hold the key, speak, and the text lands where the cursor is

Speech becomes finished text in seconds

On request

Ready and already in use by a few companies. Not open to the public yet; if you want to use one, just reach out.

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Plataforma imobiliária

A site of your own, on par with the big portals, that shows up on Google and organizes every lead

Your listings and your brand, with no portal in between

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Auditoria de acessibilidade web

Your site’s accessibility, measured against the rules Brazil requires

45 Brazilian rules, beyond the international standard

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TodoCusto

Stop pricing by guesswork: what each dish costs and how much it makes

From food truck to chain

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ClaudeFuel

How much of your Claude plan is left, in the Mac notch, with a warning before it ends

Tells you what time your limit runs out

Want it at your company? Let's talk

Lab

Not everything becomes a product. Here’s what I built to learn: POCs, experiments and what stayed behind.

Stack

Front

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Vite
  • Astro
  • Zod

Back & data

  • Node.js
  • Python
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Neon
  • Drizzle
  • Prisma
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Qdrant
  • Supabase
  • Better Auth

AI

  • Anthropic
  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • OpenRouter
  • Groq
  • fal.ai
  • Replicate
  • Hugging Face
  • ElevenLabs
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • LangSmith
  • Langfuse
  • MCP

Native apps

  • Swift
  • Rust

Infra & product

  • Trigger.dev
  • BullMQ
  • Stripe
  • Paddle
  • Asaas
  • Resend
  • WhatsApp API
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Google Maps
  • Mapbox
  • PostHog
  • Sentry
  • Docker
  • Coolify
  • Modal
  • Vercel
  • Google Cloud
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • pnpm
  • Turborepo
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • OBS Studio
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