B.Eng. Computer Engineering · Dec 2026 · open to opportunities

Engineering intelligenceat the edge.

AI · Embedded Systems · V2X

I build connected-vehicle systems end to end, from embedded C on vehicle units to computer vision and real-time dashboards. Two years of R&D at Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado, now focused on bringing machine learning to the edge.

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900+ m
V2X link range in a live automaker demo
2
years of R&D at Eldorado
Top 7.3%
of a 650-student cohort (47th)
6
certifications from Stanford, Harvard, IBM, Google…

01 · Experience

Building cars that talk to each other.

At Eldorado’s connected-vehicle lab I work across the whole stack, from CAN bus frames to the dashboards engineers use to test them.

Software Engineer Intern

Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado(opens in a new tab)

One of Brazil’s largest technology R&D institutes · Connected-vehicle (V2X) lab

Jan 2025 – PresentCampinas, SP

01
CACC prototype for a global automaker
Delivered a Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control communication prototype for one of the world’s largest automakers: real-time data exchange between two vehicles through their on-board units, reaching 900+ m. Demoed live to the automaker’s senior executives.
- C-V2X
- OBU
- 900+ m
02
Embedded C/C++ on C-V2X units
Wrote embedded C/C++ for Linux-based C-V2X units: read speed and brake state from CAN/OBD-II, fused it with GNSS, and broadcast ETSI Cooperative Awareness Messages tracking leader/follower state in real time.
- C/C++
- CAN/OBD-II
- GNSS
- ETSI CAM
03
Roadside unit with computer vision
Built the roadside unit (RSU) service in Python that generates traffic-signal messages (SPaT/MAP) and runs OpenCV + YOLO pedestrian detection, groundwork for future AI-driven traffic lights in cities.
- Python
- OpenCV
- YOLO
- SPaT/MAP
04
The team’s test tooling
Built a Flask + React/TypeScript control dashboard, an MQTT traffic simulator mixing virtual and real vehicles, and Linux network-emulation tooling that reproduces real-world latency and jitter on V2X links.
- Flask
- React
- TypeScript
- MQTT
- netem
05
Agile delivery & CI/CD
Work in Scrum sprints with Git/GitHub code review, Docker, CI/CD pipelines and Bash scripting to cross-compile, deploy and test builds on OBUs and RSUs.
- Scrum
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Bash
06
ROS 2 haptic teleoperation
Developed ROS 2 nodes to teleoperate a 6-axis robotic arm with a haptic device (force feedback, joint limits, smoothing), monitored via Grafana/Zabbix.
- ROS 2
- C++
- Grafana

System I work on

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02 · Projects

Selected work.

From on-device machine learning to a compiler written from scratch: projects that each go deep on one layer of the stack.

Thesis2026TinyML plant-health monitor
FloraSense
ESP32 sensor nodes stream climate and soil data over MQTT, a TensorFlow Lite Micro model scores plant health on-device, and the Gemini API flags disease from leaf photos, all on a real-time web dashboard.
- C++
- Python
- TensorFlow
- TFLite Micro
- Gemini API
- MQTT
- React
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2024Real-time RFID attendance
IoTTendance
Solo project in which ESP32 RFID readers log student attendance in real time to a web dashboard for teachers, replacing paper roll calls with a tap of a card.
- C++
- ESP32
- RFID
- React
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2024Deep Q-Network agent
Snake AI
An agent trained with a Deep Q-Network (DQN) that learns to play Snake autonomously from the game state, with no hard-coded strategy.
- Python
- TensorFlow
- Gym
- NumPy
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2024A compiler and VM, from scratch in C
LPD Compiler
A complete compiler for LPD, a didactic programming language, written from scratch in C, with a lexer, parser, semantic analysis, code generation and a stack-based virtual machine to run the output.
- C
- GCC
- GTK
- Lexer
- Parser
- Semantic analysis
- Code generation
Read case study

More on GitHub

Smaller experiments and coursework, all open source.

All repositories

03 · Skills

A full-stack toolbox, from silicon to screen.

Comfortable at every layer: firmware and kernel modules, ML models, back-end services, web interfaces, and the pipelines that ship them.

AI / ML

Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow / Keras
TensorFlow Lite Micro
scikit-learn
OpenCV
YOLO
NumPy
pandas
CNNs
NLP
Reinforcement learning
LLM APIs (Gemini)

Embedded & V2X

C
C++
Embedded Linux
Kernel modules
ESP32
CAN/OBD-II
GNSS
MQTT
ROS 2
C-V2X
ETSI ITS

Software

TypeScript
JavaScript
React
Node.js
Express
Flask
REST
WebSockets
MongoDB
SQL
Jest

DevOps & Tools

Git
GitHub Actions
Docker
CI/CD
Bash
Linux
Nginx
Wireshark

Languages

PortugueseNative
EnglishFluent
SpanishBasic
GermanElementary

04 · Education

Education & certifications.

B.Eng. Computer Engineering
PUC-Campinas(opens in a new tab) · Campinas, Brazil
2021 – Dec 2026
Exchange semester, Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam(opens in a new tab) · Amsterdam, Netherlands
Grade 8.3/10 · top 7.3% of the cohort (47th of 650)
Aug – Dec 2022

Certifications

TensorFlow Developer Specialization
DeepLearning.AI · 2026
Google Prompting Essentials
Google · 2026
Machine Learning Specialization
Stanford & DeepLearning.AI · 2025
Generative AI Journey with IBM Granite
IBM SkillsBuild · 2025
Writing, Running & Fixing Code in C
Duke University · 2025
CS50: Introduction to Computer Science
Harvard University · 2023

05 · Contact

Let’s build somethingthat thinks.

I’m graduating in December 2026 and open to roles in AI, embedded systems and software engineering, in Brazil or abroad. The fastest way to reach me is email.

pedrodc51203@gmail.com

Campinas, SP, Brazil · UTC−3

Engineering intelligenceat the edge.

CACC prototype for a global automaker

Embedded C/C++ on C-V2X units

Roadside unit with computer vision

The team’s test tooling

Agile delivery & CI/CD

ROS 2 haptic teleoperation

FloraSense

IoTTendance

Snake AI

LPD Compiler

More on GitHub

B.Eng. Computer Engineering

Exchange semester, Computer Science

Certifications

Let’s build somethingthat thinks.