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Raphael Fernandes
The practice

Ways I work with teams, all of them starting with a conversation.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about the problem, not a pitch. We scope it together on that first call and put it in writing, so you know exactly what arrives and when.

AI enablement for teams

Practices that make a team measurably faster, and keep working after the novelty wears off.

Delivered

A working assessment of how your team builds today, agentic workflows set up in your own repositories, an SDLC adapted for AI-assisted delivery, and a documented practice your engineers keep using after I leave.

Technology counsel

A senior read before a decision that is expensive to reverse.

Delivered

A focused review of the decision in front of you, whether that is architecture, build versus buy, or how to staff the work, closing with a written recommendation and the reasoning behind it.

Custom development

Scoped builds held to the standard of platforms with millions of monthly users.

Delivered

Discovery and scope in writing, the build itself, and a handover with documentation and tests your team can run without me.

Performance engineering

Making a product people already use measurably faster, and keeping it that way.

Delivered

Measurement of what your users actually experience, a prioritized list of fixes with owners and expected impact, and the first round of them implemented alongside your team.

LLM systems and assistants

Assistants, chatbots and retrieval systems built on your own data, held to production standards rather than demo standards.

Delivered

An assistant or chatbot built on your own data, retrieval and evaluation set up so answers stay accurate and cite their sources, and the infrastructure to run it in production.

Mentoring

For engineers in Latin America working toward international roles.

Delivered

Regular one-to-one sessions, interview practice from someone who runs the other side of the table, and honest feedback on how your experience reads abroad.

Not sure which one you need? That is usually what the first call is for.

Scoped on a first call, then agreed in writing.
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