# Fernando Picoral

I'm Fernando Picoral — a Brazilian software engineer based in New York. I just graduated in Computer Science from CU Boulder (May 2026) and I'm joining Google full-time as a Software Engineer in September 2026, after three summer internships with the company.

Source: https://picoral.me/about

## Right now

I just graduated from the **University of Colorado Boulder** with a **BS in Computer Science** (May 2026, 3.9 major GPA, with a minor in Business Administration).

In **September 2026** I join **Google** full-time as a **Software Engineer** in New York, after three summer internships with the company — first in Kirkland (Android Messages), then in Sunnyvale (Data Bridge Console), and most recently in NYC (Google Keep).

In the meantime I tinker with [personal projects](/projects). They are not products — they exist because I wanted to learn something specific. Right now those are voice AI, multi-agent orchestration, agentic RAG, and recurring-billing plumbing.

## Background

I grew up in Brazil, in Porto Alegre, and started writing code as a teenager.

In **November 2020** I founded **Stockvio**, which automated capital-gains tax (DARF) for Brazilian individual investors trading on B3. Led it as CEO until February 2022.

In **June 2021** I joined **Poatek** as a software engineer working with a Florida-based asset-management firm. Full-stack: Angular dashboards, Node/Express/MongoDB backends, an AWS Lambda in Kotlin that used an Excel sheet as the CPU for investment-return formulas, integrations with DocuSign and Canvas. My first real full-time job.

In **August 2022** I started undergrad at **CU Boulder**, and the next month joined the **Brain, AI, and Child Lab** under Dr. Tom Yeh as a research intern — internal tooling, a mobile app with on-device object detection, an AR-glasses study platform. That same fall I cofounded **AnoniMe**, a location-bound anonymous social app, and led it as CEO until October 2023, raising 100K+ USD and reaching a 500K USD valuation. I also spent a semester as Engineering Manager for the **MENV** program at CU Boulder, leading a small team that automated the master's-program capstone matching.

In **November 2023** I cofounded **Trius**, serving as CFO until January 2025 and then as Board Advisor through June 2025.

I have interned at **Google** every summer since May 2023 — Android Messages (STEP, Kirkland), Data Bridge Console (Sunnyvale), and Google Keep (NYC). Returning full-time to NYC in September 2026.

## How I work

- **Ship the small thing.** I'd rather merge a working 60% version today than a perfect plan that ships next quarter. Production beats design doc.
- **Read the source.** When something behaves weirdly, the canonical answer is in the code, not in a blog post.
- **Boring infra under exciting features.** Tenancy, observability, error boundaries — the unglamorous layer is where products live or die.
- **Instrument before optimizing.** Numbers beat intuition. Always.

## Tools I reach for

**Languages** — TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Dart, Python, C++, Go.

**Frameworks** — Next.js, React, React Native, Angular, NestJS, Express, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn.

**Databases** — PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Spanner, MySQL, Redis.

**Other** — Docker, Git, Mercurial, Unix, CI/CD, AWS.

## Languages I speak

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