ABOUT

I'm João Souto, an AI engineer.

NOWForward-deployed AI engineering

At Playlist I work forward-deployed: I collaborate with different areas of the business on a broad range of challenges, and take each solution from the first conversation to production. That means agents, integrations and apps, skills and plugins, and the secure patterns that let AI touch real systems: least-privilege access, role-based access control, audit logging and security reviews of MCP servers. I also help shape our AI strategy and guidelines.

BEFOREFive years in cybersecurity

Before AI, I spent about five years in cybersecurity at Playlist, Whirlpool, OneTrust and Atoro: GRC engineering, compliance as code, risk quantification with Monte Carlo simulation, and leading data protection across Latin America. It's why I still build systems by asking how they could break.

HOW I WORKDecompose, then design

I break a problem down until each part is simple, then design the strategy before the solution. I care about design principles: deep modules, small interfaces, code that explains its own why. Most of the work is problem solving; the creative part is finding the shape that makes the problem small.

I work in English, Spanish and Portuguese, from Brazil.