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Davi Reis Vieira

Founding Team, Tech at Refer

Founding Team, Tech @ Refer | Computer Engineer @ Insper | Tech Fellow @ Fundação Estudar

I started programming at 11 because I was bad at Counter-Strike. Instead of practicing, I wanted to know what was going on behind the game — and whether I could change it. That curiosity turned into reverse engineering, bug bounties, GTA roleplay servers and Flight Simulator add-ons I sold as a teenager, and it is still how I work: open the thing up, understand it, make it do something new. Today I'm on the founding team at Refer, building the technology that matches exceptional engineers with the AI companies shaping what comes next.

Experience

  1. Jun 2024 – Present

    Founding Team, Tech at Refer

    Palo Alto, California, United States

    At Refer, we connect Stanford's brightest engineers with the AI companies shaping the future. Building the technology that matches exceptional specialized talent with forward-thinking teams.

  2. 2024 – Present

    Tech Fellow at Fundação Estudar

    Brazil

    Selected as a Tech Fellow of Fundação Estudar, a highly selective fellowship supporting high-potential Brazilian leaders in technology.

  3. Sep 2021 – Jul 2024

    Lead Developer at Stone

    São Paulo, Brazil

    Designed and developed multiple applications, enhancing system performance and user experience. Led the multicloud cost optimization team, managing resources across Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Azure.

  4. Jan 2023 – Jun 2024

    CTO at CP Legal Claims

    Brazil

    Led the strategic planning and development of the technology division focused on the acquisition of judicial assets. Optimized legal workflows for search, summarization, and classification using GenAI, custom classification models, and LLMs.

  5. Mar 2021 – Jul 2024

    Ambassador at Brazilian Technion Society

    Brazil

    Represented and promoted the organization, building strong relationships with key stakeholders. Facilitated events and initiatives to support its mission and goals.

  6. Jul 2021 – Jan 2022

    Senior Technology Consultant at Insper Jr.

    São Paulo, Brazil

    Provided technical support and project management for various clients. Led educational initiatives, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Projects

Things I build outside of work — tools I wanted to exist.

  • StackPort

    Open source158 GitHub stars35k+ Docker pullsMIT license

    See everything running in your AWS emulator

    An open-source browser for AWS resources across 35 services, working against LocalStack, MiniStack, Moto, or a real AWS account through one interface. Read and write — browse S3, invoke Lambdas, push SQS messages — with live updates over WebSockets, a CLI for CI pipelines, and guided lessons that run against your own emulator.

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Cloudscape
    • Docker
  • MD Formatter

    LiveChrome Web Store

    Readable Markdown and llms.txt, the moment you open them

    A browser extension that notices when a page is a Markdown document and renders it in place — the way a JSON formatter handles raw JSON. Built for the llms.txt era: an index renders as browsable link cards rather than a wall of bullets. No configuration, no tracking, and no network requests of its own.

    • TypeScript
    • Manifest V3
    • markdown-it
    • DOMPurify
    • Shadow DOM

More repos and experiments live on GitHub.

How I got here

  1. 2011

    Bad at Counter-Strike, curious about it

    I wanted to know how the game worked behind the scenes and whether I could change it. A year of modding taught me what a programming language was, how to alter a game's behavior and how to create my first items.

  2. Teens

    Reverse engineering & bug bounty

    Kept going as a hobby, purely out of curiosity: learning to program properly and taking software apart to see how it worked. My first paid work was bug bounty. I loved security, but it felt like a tricky field to build a career in, so I kept following the curiosity.

  3. Teens

    GTA roleplay servers & flight-sim add-ons

    Then I realized I could build things people wanted: I ran GTA roleplay servers and made add-ons and modifications for Microsoft Flight Simulator X — some of which I sold. That's where hobby code started becoming products.

  4. 2014–17

    Science olympiads

    Gold twice at the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad and bronze at the Brazilian Physics Olympiad — the same itch, pointed at the universe instead of a game.

  5. 2020–24

    Computer Engineering at Insper

    Formal foundations in computer science, plus consulting for clients as a technology consultant at Insper Jr.

  6. 2021–24

    Lead Developer at Stone

    Built applications used at scale and led the multicloud cost-optimization team across Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.

  7. 2023–24

    CTO at CP Legal Claims

    Ran the technology behind acquiring judicial assets, using LLMs and custom classifiers to search, summarize and classify legal documents.

  8. 2024–now

    Founding team at Refer

    Building the platform that connects Stanford's strongest engineers with the AI companies shaping the future. Selected as a Fundação Estudar Tech Fellow the same year.

  9. 2026

    AWS CTO Fellowship & open source

    Joined the AWS CTO Fellowship, and keep shipping tools I wish existed — StackPort and MD Formatter among them.

Education

  1. 2020 – 2024

    Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa

    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

    Skills: Computer Science, Containerization

  2. 2015 – 2019

    Colégio Ari de Sá Cavalcante

    High School, General Studies

Certifications and fellowships

  • Jul 2026

    AWS CTO Fellowship

    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Credential ID 1a1495c9-b15b-4f1a-b882-10bfdd3a6761

  • Apr 2022

    Understanding Your Google Cloud Costs

    Coursera

    Verify

  • Aug 2021

    Valuation e Precificação de Ativos

    Suno Research

  • Oct 2020

    AI Text Annotation with Watson Knowledge Studio & Integrated APIs

    IBM

  • Oct 2020

    Data Science & Machine Learning Deployment with Jupyter & Watson ML

    IBM

Awards

  • Apr 2018

    Bronze Medal - Brazilian Physics Olympiad 2017

    OBF

    Bronze Medal at the Brazilian Physics Olympiad in 2017

  • Oct 2017

    Gold Medal - Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad 2017

    OBA

    Gold Medal at the Brazilian Astronomy and Astronautics Olympiad. Participant in IOAA and OLAA selection.

  • Oct 2014

    Gold Medal - Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad 2014

    OBA

    Gold Medal at the Brazilian Astronomy and Astronautics Olympiad in 2014.

  • Jul 2015

    Bronze Medal - Brazilian Physics Olympiad 2014

    OBF

    Bronze Medal at the Brazilian Physics Olympiad in 2014.

  • Nov 2015

    12th Place - Ceará Science Olympiad 2015

    OCC

    12th place in the XXIII Ceará Science Olympiad in 2015

Contact

Email
[email protected]
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/davireisvieira
GitHub
github.com/DaviReisVieira
Full name
Davi Reis Vieira de Souza
Location
Palo Alto, California, United States