Blind software engineer. Functional programming, distributed systems, and accessibility.
A blind musician, an inaccessible guitar pedal editor, and an AI with browser access walked into a bar — and walked out with a working editor. A reverse-engineering story about accessibility and what AI is actually good for.
AI will write the code, product will write the specs, and management will write the strategy. Everybody gets cut. There's just one problem: nobody could write any of those things properly in the first place.
Simple textual markup and well-crafted templates can be far more effective than PowerPoint for visually impaired users. Some tools that help.
Long-term contributor to the NVDA open source screen reader for Windows — braille input, add-on infrastructure, display drivers, and Portuguese translation.
A Scala 3 library for compile-time-checked Postgres queries on top of skunk. Column names, types, nullability, and INSERT completeness are all verified by the compiler.