picoral . me

Brazilian, based in NYC

/ˌpē-kōˈräl/

I'm Fernando Picoral, a Brazilian software engineer based in New York. On the side I tinker with AI — mostly to learn the next thing.

Things I work on About me

Featured

Side projects

A few things I have been building in my own time. None are products — they exist because I wanted to try something.

Sonar

In development

Personal project exploring multi-agent orchestration. The use case is sales-call review; the actual point was learning Anthropic tool use, prompt caching, and persisted agent state.

  • Next.js 16
  • TypeScript
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6
  • Claude Haiku 4.5
  • Groq Whisper Large v3

Relay

Live

Personal project exploring real-time voice AI. The use case is a clinic receptionist; the actual point was hitting a sub-second user-perceived latency budget with full per-leg instrumentation.

  • Next.js 16
  • TypeScript
  • LiveKit Cloud
  • Twilio
  • Deepgram

Cite

In development

Personal project exploring agentic RAG. Every answer is grounded by inline citations; clicking one opens the source document at the exact region that produced it.

  • Next.js 16
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind v4
  • shadcn/ui (Radix Nova)
  • Anthropic SDK

Forge

In development

Personal project — a serving + benchmarking artifact for self-hosted Llama 3.1 8B (AWQ-INT4 on vLLM). Answers "should I self-host an OSS LLM instead of paying a commercial API" with a reproducible methodology.

  • Python 3.12
  • uv
  • vLLM
  • AWQ-INT4 (Marlin kernels)
  • lm-evaluation-harness
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Frequently asked

Who is Fernando Picoral?

Fernando Picoral is a Brazilian software engineer based in New York. He just graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in May 2026 with a degree in Computer Science, and is joining Google full-time as a Software Engineer in September 2026 after three summer internships with the company in Kirkland, Sunnyvale, and NYC.

What is Fernando working on right now?

A handful of personal projects in AI — voice, multi-agent, RAG, and recurring billing. They exist only as places to learn the next thing. He starts at Google full-time in September 2026.

How do I contact Fernando?

The fastest way is email (see the contact page). You can also find him on GitHub (@feRpicoral) and LinkedIn (/in/picoral).

What languages does Fernando speak?

Portuguese (native), English (fluent), and Spanish (working proficiency). This site is available in all three.