Projects

Projects

Personal initiatives bridging research, teaching and engineering — open to explore.

Cover: Cloud-Native Software Architecture
Book · CDX Publishing

Cloud-Native Software Architecture

A foundational book that recovers the fundamentals behind the tools — from distributed systems and modularity to containers, DevOps, IaC and SaaS — to shape engineers, not operators. Born from the courses taught at CESAR School.

  • 11 chapters · 253 pages
  • Available now on Amazon
  • Kindle & print (PT) · Kindle (EN)
C2PF4 layers01InputObjectives · SLO · PLO · RLO02EvaluationThresholds · SLA + SRE03Decision3×3 matrix · RLO→SLO→PLO04OutputPlan + rationale→ objectives to architecture
Research · Cloud · Capacity Planning

C2PF (Cloud Capacity Planning Framework)

A scientific core for planning cloud capacity up front — from declared objectives to architecture, traceably and reproducibly. From the doctoral thesis (CESAR, 2023) to two papers and a product in production.

  • 4 layers · SLO · PLO · RLO
  • CESAR thesis (2023) + 2 papers
  • 87% cut in proposal cycle time
Data-Centric Trust Pipeline4 layers01IntegrityDemographic coverage02FairnessParity · opportunity03SynthesisValidated generation04ProvenanceDecision-level lineage↻ recursive cycle
Research · Trustworthy AI

Data-Centric Trust Pipeline

A governance framework that couples integrity, fairness, synthetic data and provenance into a single auditable system for trustworthy AI in sensitive domains. Published in AI and Ethics (2026).

  • 4 layers · recursive cycle
  • Open-source framework · MIT
  • AI and Ethics · 2026
One study · two essays A Trilogia “No shortcuts. Only what holds.” Carlos Diego Cavalcanti Pereira
Education · Development

A Trilogia

An academic study and two essays on education, learning and personal development — what truly shapes people: method, effort, family and the role of the school. Published in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

  • 01Pedagogical systems and the limits of intervention at the level of method · research
  • 02The Whales, the Messy Room, and the Education Everyone Wants to Reform · essay
  • 03The Invisible Substrate of Success: merit, chance and accumulated factors · essay
Extreme Software Process X‑PRO.ai Engineering rigor, calibrated to the project. Open source · MIT
AI-Driven Development · Open source

X-PRO.ai

A trade-off engine — not a template — that compiles your project profile into Markdown guardrails an AI agent reads as it builds. From throwaway PoC to regulated system, with every choice recorded. It grows out of the doctoral thesis on capacity planning.

  • 4 layers · 40 engineering practices
  • Calibrated tiers T0–T3
  • 100% deterministic Markdown output
  • Open source · MIT license