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Alexandre DO-O ALMEIDA
Lead AI Software Engineer
Agentic AI 路 Founding Engineer (YC S20) 路 Sony PlayStation
Summary
10 years building software: helped scale Jam.gg (YC S20) to 2M users, delivered AI to 50K students, and built PlayStation automated testing for 5,000+ games. I orchestrate Codex and Claude Code agents for autonomous implementation, testing and review, owning architecture and release quality.
Experience
Studi / Galileo Global Education
Lead AI Software Engineer
Apr 2026 - Present
- Delivered a RAG-based course-support assistant to production for 50,000 students, using LLMs, LangChain and Langfuse for retrieval, evaluation and observability.
- Partner directly with the CEO to lead R&D and engineering transformation at an 800-person education company.
- Lead a full LMS rebuild and videoconferencing platform development, owning architecture and guiding developers through implementation and delivery.
Sony Interactive Entertainment / PlayStation
DevOps Engineer / Test Automation Infrastructure Lead 路 via Implicit Conversions
Feb 2023 - Mar 2026
- Built CI/CD and automated testing for PlayStation emulators with Python, GitHub Actions and AWS, covering 5,000+ games across console devkits and operating environments.
- Supported release quality for 50+ PlayStation Classics on PS4/PS5 reaching millions of players; maintained pipelines used by 15+ engineers.
Jam.gg (formerly Piepacker) 路 Y Combinator S20
Founding Engineer / Product & QA Lead
Mar 2020 - Mar 2023
- Part of the founding team that scaled a cloud gaming platform to 2M users and 500K MAU as the company raised a $12M Series A.
- Shipped backend, frontend and cloud systems with Go, TypeScript, React, Firebase and GCP, including Discord/Twitch integrations, browser streaming and game catalog systems.
- Created and led Product and QA teams; helped recruit the first 30 hires as the company grew to 60+ employees.
Earlier experience
Atos 路 Backend Engineer / AI & IoT Lead. Led 6 developers on Azure predictive maintenance; built Java geolocation systems for the French Army.
2018 - 2020Airbus Helicopters 路 Built Unity VR/AR simulators for technician training (Vive, HoloLens); earlier Java backend engineering via Reactis (2016-2017).
2016 - 2018CNRS 路 Bioinformatics Engineer Intern. Extended Java tools for genomic structure analysis, sequence alignment and phylogenetic visualization.
2016Technical focus
- Software
- Go 路 TypeScript 路 React 路 Python 路 Java 路 SQL 路 Rust 路 C++
- AI & agents
- Codex 路 Claude Code 路 RAG 路 LangChain 路 Langfuse 路 AI evaluation
- Cloud & delivery
- GCP 路 AWS 路 Firebase 路 Docker 路 Kubernetes 路 GitHub Actions 路 CI/CD
Education & languages
Master's in Computer Engineering 路 Aix Ynov Campus / Ingesup 路 2016-2019
BSc, Cell & Molecular Biology 路 Aix-Marseille University 路 2013-2016
French: native 路 English: full professional proficiency, TOEIC 990/990