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Victor Fernandes Spent 7 Years Automating Power Plants. Now He Builds Data Platforms.
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- The Nearshore Cafe
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- Jun 15, 2026
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- 1340
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Summary
Victor Fernandes is a data platform engineer from Fortaleza, Brazil — and his path to get there is unlike anything I've heard before. Seven and a half years automating power plants and steel factories, then a single phone call in 2021 that pulled him into the data world. We talk about what it's like building for U.S. teams from Northeast Brazil, the cultural shock of his first American standup, and how he thinks about AI on production systems. You'll come away with a very different picture of...