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Senior Solutions Architect at Banco Itaú
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Senior Solutions Architect
Fernando
Azevedo
Currently deep in
16+ years connecting business strategy and engineering through AWS, event-driven systems, data platforms, AI and financial-grade architecture.
This site is my Mind Backup — a public second brain of everything I read, study and build, shared to help the community.
16+
years
33
architecture studies
4
AWS certifications
2
tech MBAs
AWSEvent-DrivenKafka
Certified
MBA
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Solution architecture spans business, engineering, data, security and AI. Jump to what matters for you.
Recruiters & headhunters
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Seniority, scope, certifications and availability — at a glance.
Architects & technical peers
See how I reason
Real ADRs, design docs, post-mortems, diagrams and the playbook.
Business & leadership
Impact and trade-offs
Financial-grade systems, decision-making and technical leadership.
Devs · AI · AWS
Hands-on depth
Open-source projects, applied AI on Bedrock and AWS depth.
Mind Backup · the knowledge
Everything I read, study and build
A public second brain, organized by type: blog, architecture studies, courses, e-books, open source and podcast.
Blog
Read the technical blog
AWS, AI, market signals and field notes written for architects and builders.
curated articles
Studies
Explore architecture studies
ADRs, design docs, post-mortems and teardowns with diagrams and trade-offs.
long-form decisions
Courses
Take a free course
Direct, interactive AI-engineering tracks with quizzes, audio and a certificate.
free · with certificate
E-books
Read the e-books
Book-length deep dives — online, PDF, EPUB and narrated audiobook.
free · audiobook
Open Source
Open source guides
Public repos with generated guides, usage notes and practical context.
repos with guides
Podcast
Listen to the podcast
AWS, AI and architecture in audio — including AI-narrated episodes.
audio notes
Thinking in public
Writing and curated signals
A reading layer for AI, AWS, technology and market movements.
Architecture studies
ADRs, design docs, post-mortems & teardowns
Long-form architecture documents from real cases — the way I reason as a solutions architect.
Audio
Podcasts and audio notes
Audio reflections on architecture, AWS, AI, financial markets and applied technology. A way to study in public, document ideas and share perspective.
Weekly podcast
🇧🇷 In Portuguese
AWS Semanal
Every week, AWS architecture and news in practice — straight to the point, for people building on the cloud.
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AI assistant
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A retrieval-grounded assistant trained on my career, architecture decisions and writing — built on Amazon Bedrock. Ask about my background, get architecture advice, or check role fit.
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New free course · with certificate
The AI Architect Track
AI engineering from zero to agent — 22 direct, visual and interactive lessons: from what AI is to LLMs, embeddings, RAG, tools, agents, MCP, skills and architecture on AWS (Bedrock/AgentCore). With quizzes, mini-games, lesson audio and a completion certificate.
The track
5 modules · 22 lessons
Interactive
Quizzes · flashcards · mini-games
You finish with
A verified certificate
New free e-book + audiobook
Inside the Bank: The Architecture Elevator
A complete book — 16 chapters, ~100 pages — on Gregor Hohpe's Architecture Elevator applied to banking on AWS: from business to the ledger, events, data, Bedrock, EKS, security and production operations. Free online; PDF, EPUB and Markdown.
The book
16 chapters · 5 parts · ~100 pages
From business to engine room
Ledger · Pix · eventos · Bedrock · EKS
Formats
Online · PDF · EPUB · Audiobook
Executive profile
A solution architect for regulated, high-impact systems
My strongest signal is the combination of engineering depth, financial-sector context and architecture communication. I design with trade-offs visible: risk, cost, security, resilience, developer experience and business timing.
Banco ItaúFinancial systemsAWSEvent-drivenData MeshAI
16+
years across engineering and architecture
From hands-on delivery to solution architecture in financial-grade environments.
AWS
cloud architecture and Well-Architected practice
EKS, Lambda, Glue, MSK, security, observability and cost-aware architecture.
AI
enterprise AI and agentic workflows
Bedrock, RAG, AI-assisted DevOps, governance and practical automation.
Fin
banking, risk and integration context
Core banking, event-driven integration, compliance and secure decision-making.
Senior Solutions Architect · Banco Itaú4 AWS certifications + AI PractitionerAWS Community Builder2 technology MBAs23 open-source projects20 architecture studies
I like conversations that sharpen architecture.
I am proud to be building at Banco Itaú today. This space is for serious exchanges about cloud, AI, financial systems, leadership and engineering craft.
São Paulo · remote worldwide Banco Itaú EN · PT-BR
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