I currently have two work locations: a home-based office and a professional workspace near my local Uni. In my main office, I work with a Lenovo laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor, 16GB of RAM, Windows 11 Home, and three extra screens – 2 of them being 23,8'' and the main one being 27'', all of them AOC (this is incredibly useful for complex projects that demand extensive research and have other reference documents). I also use a logitech K345 keyboard and MX Master 3S mouse. In my apartment office (which I use only occasionally when I can't go to my main office), I have the same K345 keyboard, a logitech Lift mouse, a Dell 15'' laptop with Windows 11 Pro, an i7 processor, and 16GB of RAM. In both computers, I use my MemoQ 10.2 perpetual license for projects that don't have a specific CAT tool or use Trados packages. I also have my own internet plans on both locations, so no shared network security risks.

I am for progress and technology and I think AI has allowed for massive improvements in our work – it really helps us speed up our tasks and ensure better consistency. It can be a wonderful tool as an assistant that gives you insights and inspiration in my moments of writer's (translator's) block. That being said, it's visibly far from being reliable. Very often (multiple times a week), I decide to just close my AIs browser because they're not being of any help – you can often tell they're not really thinking, but rather just replacing words with other words. Some days, all their analyses and calculations are flawed or hallucinate. They're still below the raw, unedited, unplugged human mind with its creativity, culture, experience, and technical knowledge. Saying translating is easy because of AI or that it doesn’t require strong expertise clearly comes from a place of having never had to translate professionally. I am hopeful AIs will improve exponentially over the next few months, but I really don't think they will ever be able to replace a skilled, high-quality professional.

My training during my master's was what opened my mind to the true value of a professional translator: we were drilled to only consider a translation to be high-quality when the reader would believe it was written not just by a native speaker of the target language, but by a specialist in the field. This means there would be virtually no indication that the text was not originally written by a specialist, let alone translated.

A good exercise to understand all this is to ask an AI to translate a text in your industry; provide it with context, your glossary, guidelines, whatever you want. When you get the result, don't ask yourself, "Is this good?", but rather, "Would I trust my business with this text?"; "Would I publish this on my website with just minor tweaks for my clients to see?"; "Would I present this to the company's CEO?". The answer will tell you everything.

Despite everything, I am on team AI in the midst of all this heat we see in the industry, and I'm indeed an AI enthusiast. Technology exists to be used and to make our work more cost-efficient.

As of January 2025, nothing, as I've been so full of work recently 😅 I'm actually trying to enjoy the summer here as best I can (reminder I'm in the Southern Hemisphere). Maybe this will be the year I finally manage to read more on my spare time...

Localization is, to it's core, adaptation.

If you want to be successful in reaching different audiences, be it in a marketing campaign or your own product, you'll need to adapt the content beyond mere language shifting.

Localization is a part of building brand awareness, connecting with costumers and conquering audience loyalty. It goes through understanding the cultural nuances of different parts of your target audience and catering to them. In the end, this is all an important part of having a solid strategy to support your company's overall performance.

My current projects include:

• Being one of the Brazilian localization specialists for a major cryptocurrency platform, working mostly on their website (articles, buttons, banners) and ads.
• Being the lead Brazilian linguist working on the ongoing localization of an e-learning company's website and software.
• Working on social media and website content for Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), including content for other international auditing organizations that partner with the TCU (such as OLACEFS, INTOSAI, and JuriSAI).
• Working on UI for a risk management / work safety company through a translation agency.
• Revising SEO keywords and metadata with technical content for an alternative energy company through a translation agency.

As of 2025, I am an accredited translator by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) (which means I'm registered as one of their trusted translators to provide services on an occasional basis). I was recently chosen to become one of the Brazilian Portuguese localization specialists for a major cryptocurrency platform.

Finance and Crypto are among my CPD choices, which you can see on my CPD section. In 2024 alone, I started 3 carefully selected courses: Sofia Abreu's comprehensive course on traditional investments, Investidor Descentralizado's course on privacy and the use of crypto, and Rafaela Romano's comprehensive course on crypto. I'm currently an investor in both the Brazilian and US stock markets and use cryptocurrencies regularly. I'm a subscriber of the Wall Street Journal, which I read on a regular basis to stay informed, as well as other media that cover investment and market news.

As of 2025, I'm mostly following content on the WSJ and crypto content creators.

I normally diversify my assets across both fixed income (Brazilian treasury bonds and Brazilian banks CDBs, LCIs, and LCAs, and US Treasury ETFs) and variable income (stocks, REITs (including their Brazilian equivalents, FIIs), and ETFs, especially index funds). I'm more of a long-term, 'choose wisely, buy, and hold' type of investor than an active trader.

Oh yeah :)

As of 2025, I'm currently reading Luiz Henrique Lima's book about auditing, External Control: Theory and Jurisprudence for Courts of Accounts. I decided to read it so I could get a better grasp of the auditing/external control world, which could help me with my collaboration with the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts.

Anti-corruption, anti-bribery, and auditing are among the ones that best caught my attention during the last year, especially in the context of my collaboration with the TCU. I'm also excited to work on initiatives where Brazil is heavily involved currently, such as SDG implementation, the BRICS, and international cooperation in areas like climate change and public policies and programs in general.

As of 2025, I'm currently reading Patricia Peck Pinheiro's book about data protection, Personal Data Protection: Comments on Law No. 13,709/2018 (LGPD).

My favorite field is Criminal Law (at some point, I planned on becoming a university professor for this field and even taught some classes as an assistant). I also have a strong background in Constitutional Law and was a part of a research group at some point.