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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Professional Profile
Four years inside a Fortune 500 finance operation, building automation pipelines at team scale, running bilingual training programs, and managing client relationships across borders. Now shipping independent software products in AI infrastructure. The common thread: taking complex systems (financial, technical, or human) and making them work for real people. Equally at home in a room full of engineers, finance directors, or first-week hires. Fluent English since childhood, lived and worked across 20+ countries.
At a Glance
Experience
Independent Builder · AI Infrastructure & Product Development
Self-directed · 2024 – Present · Remote
- · Minutia: RAG-powered chat application using CrewAI for orchestration, FAISS for vector search, and Claude Sonnet as the reasoning engine
- · Locus: Gmail + AI integration with automated email management built on Fastify and Gemini
- · OpenClaw / Hermes: AI agent blueprint marketplace with Stripe payments, JWT auth, WebSocket SSH terminal, and real-time agent execution
- · Full ownership from backend architecture to deployment: payments, authentication, real-time systems, AI pipelines, and agent orchestration on self-hosted VPS infrastructure
Corporate Tax Analyst · Cargill
Full-time · Jul 2021 – Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Uberlândia, Brazil · Hybrid
One of the world's largest agribusiness companies. Operated across three dimensions simultaneously within the same role.
Technical & Automation
- ·Built automation pipelines for tax reconciliation between fiscal books and accounting ledgers using Python, SQL, and KNIME, adopted across multiple teams
- ·Developed Power BI dashboards to surface financial accuracy metrics and support executive decision-making
- ·Introduced AI-assisted workflows for repetitive team processes before it became standard practice in the organization
Finance & Operations
- ·Managed tax reconciliation across complex multi-entity corporate structures at Fortune 500 scale
- ·Supported RTR (Record to Report) processes with international finance teams across multiple regions
- ·Built and maintained financial auditing frameworks for balance validation and corporate tax reporting
People, Training & Client Relations
- ·Full onboarding ownership: designed and delivered end-to-end onboarding programs for new team members in a multinational environment, no supervision required
- ·Bilingual training programs: led company-wide initiatives spreading EN/PT training for high-performance professionals across Cargill's ecosystem
- ·Direct client negotiation: managed expectations, handled escalations, and built trust across multiple stakeholder groups in a complex B2B environment
- ·Cross-border collaboration: bridged communication between Brazil operations and global finance units on RTR processes
Core Competencies
People & Communication
Finance & Operations
Technical