Joao Pedro Soares

Bridge Professional · CS · Finance · AI Products

Makes complex systems work for real people · Fluent EN/PT · Remote Worldwide

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Experience

Four years at Cargill produced three distinct sets of experience. They are shown separately below.

TECH

AI Infrastructure Builder

Independent · Founder

Current

2024 · Present · Uberlândia, Brazil

Building and shipping production products on self-hosted VPS infrastructure. Full stack ownership from backend to deployment — payments, auth, real-time systems, AI pipelines, and agent architecture.

· Minutia — RAG-powered chat using CrewAI, FAISS, and Claude Sonnet
· Locus — Gmail + AI integration with Fastify and Gemini
· OpenClaw / Hermes — AI agent blueprint marketplace with Stripe, JWT auth, WebSocket SSH terminal, and xterm.js

Node.jsPythonFastifyCrewAIClaudeOpenRouterWebSocketsPM2Nginx

Corporate Tax Analyst · Technical Track

Cargill · Full-time

4 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2021 – Aug 2025 · Uberlândia, Brazil · Hybrid

Embedded technical work inside a Fortune 500 finance operation. Identified workflow bottlenecks, measured their cost, and built automation pipelines that ran at team scale.

· Built automation pipelines for tax reconciliation between fiscal books and accounting ledgers using Python, SQL, and KNIME
· Developed scalable tools for balance validation, tax reporting, and financial auditing used across multiple teams
· Created Power BI dashboards to surface financial accuracy metrics and support decision-making
· Early adopter of AI for process automation — introduced AI-assisted workflows before it became standard practice

PythonSQLKNIMEPower BIProcess AutomationAI Workflows

FINANCE

Corporate Tax Analyst · Finance Track

Cargill · Full-time

4 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2021 – Aug 2025 · Uberlândia, Brazil · Hybrid

Core financial operations inside one of the world's largest agribusiness companies. Worked where tax law, accounting standards, and regulatory reporting intersect — at enterprise scale, with real consequences for accuracy.

· Managed tax reconciliation between fiscal books and accounting ledgers, ensuring accuracy across complex multi-entity structures
· Supported RTR (Record to Report) processes in collaboration with international finance teams across multiple regions
· Built and maintained financial auditing frameworks for balance validation and tax reporting at corporate scale
· Drove financial accuracy and efficiency improvements across reporting cycles using structured analytical pipelines

Tax ReconciliationRTRFinancial AuditingBalance ValidationCorporate Finance

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP

Corporate Tax Analyst · People & Communication Track

Cargill · Full-time

4 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2021 – Aug 2025 · Uberlândia, Brazil · Hybrid

The client-facing and people dimension of the same Cargill role. In a company of that scale, managing relationships and running training programs is its own full skill set — not a side task.

· Onboarding ownership — designed and delivered onboarding training for new team members end-to-end, no supervision required
· Bilingual training programs — led external initiatives spreading bilingual (EN/PT) training for high-performance professionals across Cargill's ecosystem
· Direct client negotiation — managed expectations, handled escalations, and built trust across multiple client and stakeholder groups in a complex B2B environment
· International team coordination — bridged communication between Brazil operations and global finance units on RTR processes
· Process-to-people translation — converted technical financial workflows into structured, accessible training materials for cross-functional audiences

OnboardingBilingual TrainingClient NegotiationStakeholder MgmtCross-cultural TeamsEnglish C1