About

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I am a senior at Northwestern University majoring in Computer Science,
and pursuing a certificate in Managerial Analytics from the Kellogg School of Management.

I was born in the heart of Brazil and raised "inside" my parent's plastic card manufacturing business, which was incredibly fun for me as a kid, and taught me about the value of hard work and responsibility. I have a naturally curious mind for the working of all things, and found my true passion in technology, especially the kind that simply works and works simply.

Skills

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Projects

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Ame Box
A React webapp with backend in Ruby on Rails that allows small business owners to manage their inventory, offer an online catalog of their products and services, and charge customers through B2W`s Ame digital wallet.

This past summer I worked at Brazil’s largest e-commerce company, Americanas , as a special projects assistant. My primary responsibilities included creating a proof-of-concept(POC) of a catalog for ride-share drivers to sell products to passengers, as well as adapting this catalog for the sale of convenience products in office spaces. By building prototypes and getting feedback on them, it became clear that the catalog needed to address the broader opportunity of improving customers' buying experiences while lowering the signup friction of merchants. The requirements for the POC were that it processed credit card transactions through Americana's Ame Digital Wallet , offered an interactive and customizable list of goods and services, and registered sales with the company's order management system.
Thinking of allowing different buying experiences, I created the following functionalities:

• Quick Pay
This payment option evolved from the idea of selling convenience products to office workers at their work stations using a food cart. The goal was to offer the most convenient possible service, which entailed having the client merely reach out their arm with the payment QR Code openend on their phone screen. The merchant operating the scart would then select the products the client chose from a catalog, and scan the QR Code to charge them.


• Self-checkout
The first live test we made with this payment method was to have Americanas' employees who often purchased ready made meals from a well-liked cook at the office to choose their go-to lunch boxes from a tablet and scan the QR Code this tablet generated using their Ame Wallet Payment Scanner . This was a big improvement over what was being done before, where customers would have to line up, and once it was their turn to pay, the cook would type the customer's total(with no inventory control), and then take time from prepping other meals in order to scan the customer's Payment QR Code .

• Mobile ordering
THe employees quickly caught on to the idea, and at some points a line would form for customers paying on the tablet. The solution was to create a Webapp in which they could purchase their meals from their phones wherever they were, whenever they wanted. After hitting the pink Confirm Payment button, a deeplink would then take them to the Ame Wallet app. All there was left to do was to stop by Mrs. Lilia's stand and pick up their lunch boxes.