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Jose Barbosa
Personal Atlas Volume MMXXVI

23°33′S 46°38′W — São Paulo, MMXXVI

23°33′S 46°38′W — São Paulo, MMXXVI

Jose Barbosa

Engineering Director

Fifteen years steering engineering teams between Thailand and Brazil. Now founding AI products and teaching organisations to use them well.

The Captain

Portrait of Jose Barbosa
São Paulo, May MMXXVI
Bearing 180° — Contents

Contents

Volume MMXXVI, in six chapters.

General index. Each chapter opens a portion of the work.

  1. I Hailing Home 23°33′S 46°38′W
  2. II Captain About 8°03′S 34°53′W
  3. III Voyages Portfolio 18°47′N 98°59′E
  4. IV Service Record CV 13°45′N 100°30′E
  5. V Logbook Writing 59°56′N 30°19′E
  6. VI Correspondence Contact 31°14′N 121°28′E

Soundings

Selected outcomes

No. 01 Scale 40 fathoms

Led an engineering team of 60.

At Seven Peaks Software, promoted from Head of Backend to Head of Engineering within a year. Led the 60-engineer department via 16 direct reports (4 principals, 12 tech leads) across 27 nationalities, with distributed teams in India and Eastern Europe.

No. 02 Retention 57 fathoms

Halved quarterly attrition.

Bi-weekly 1:1s with 12 direct reports, quarterly 1:1s with every engineer in the department. Redesigned the interview process to filter for fit early. Created the Leader Development Program for tech leads.

No. 03 Revenue 74 fathoms

Trained enterprise engineering teams on AI.

Two tracks: AI-augmented development (LLM workflows, agentic coding patterns) and building AI agents (n8n, LLM orchestration, production deployment). Both started as bi-monthly internal workshops, then became a paid enterprise program. Clients include a leading Thai utility.

Hailing

Available for engineering leadership roles, AI training, and consulting engagements.

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