# Fernando Picoral

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.

Source: https://picoral.me/

## Side projects

- [Sonar](https://picoral.me/projects/sonar) — 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 end to end.
- [Relay](https://picoral.me/projects/relay) — 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.
- [Cite](https://picoral.me/projects/cite) — 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, and an automated judge scores whether the source actually supports the claim.
- [Forge](https://picoral.me/projects/forge) — Personal project - measured vLLM serving benchmark for Llama 3.1 8B on a RunPod A5000, with BF16 at 2,169 total tok/s, $0.035 per 1M tokens, and AWQ retaining 99.4% mean quality.

## 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.