Wind Energy · Data Engineering · Probabilistic Design
Wind Turbine Engineering & Data Systems
15 years at the intersection of wind turbine engineering and engineering computation. 6 granted patents. Contributor to IEC TS 61400-9. CTO of Oportunidados.
My work sits at a specific and rarely combined intersection: deep expertise in wind turbine aeroelastic simulation, structural reliability, and probabilistic design — built over 15 years at companies including Vestas Wind Systems — and the software and data engineering practice to implement these methods at scale. I hold 6 granted patents and served as Secretary of the IEC TC88 project team that produced IEC TS 61400-9:2025, the wind industry's first international standard for probabilistic design of wind turbines.
More recently, I stepped away from that track to co-found and lead the technical organisation of Oportunidados, a business intelligence startup in Brazil. As CTO, I built production-grade data engineering pipelines, a full-stack web platform, and a technical team from the ground up — navigating the AI inflection point of 2024–2025 with a commercial product serving enterprise clients. That experience gave me a practitioner's understanding of what it takes to build and operate data-intensive software systems, not just design them.
I am now available for consulting engagements and senior technical roles at the boundary of wind energy engineering and data infrastructure. If you are working on problems that require both physics-based simulation expertise and modern software and data engineering practice, I would be glad to discuss how I can help.
Areas of specialisation available for consulting engagements and senior technical roles.
Design load calculations, load verification campaigns, and turbine certification support using industry-standard simulation tools.
Application and calibration of probabilistic structural design methods for wind turbines, including safety factor derivation and risk-based assessment.
Aeroelastic model validation against field measurements, design of validation frameworks, and certification strategy.
Data engineering and software tooling for simulation workflows, field data processing, and engineering insight at scale.
15 years across wind energy engineering, R&D, standards, and technology leadership.
Mar 2024 – Present
Technical Director / CTO
Oportunidados·Curitiba, Brazil · Remote
Built and led the technical organisation of a business intelligence startup from inception — data engineering pipelines (DBT, Airflow), full-stack platform (Ruby on Rails + Vue), cloud infrastructure (GCP), and technical team hiring and management. Navigated integration of LLM-based features into production during the AI inflection point of 2024–2025.
Oct 2021 – Feb 2024
Specialist — Value Stream Lead, Design Basis & Modelling
Vestas Wind Systems A/S·Aarhus, Denmark
Led the team responsible for design basis, probabilistic design, and wind turbine dynamic modelling. Secretary of IEC PT 61400-9. Contributor to IECRE/TC88 Joint Working Forum on Model Validation. 4 patents filed during this period.
Sep 2017 – Jan 2021
Lead Engineer — Loads & Controls Technologies
Vestas Wind Systems A/S·Aarhus, Denmark
Technical lead for probabilistic and reliability-based load calculations. Developed new tooling for reliability-based design. Led root cause analysis of aeroelastic modelling inaccuracies. Delivered load verification campaigns for type certification.
Aug 2014 – Aug 2017
Senior Analyst — Loads & Controls
WEG Equipamentos Elétricos S.A.·Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil
First full-time loads and controls engineer at a Brazilian wind turbine OEM. Built the team's methodology and toolchain. Achieved 50% reduction in simulation processing time; 10× speedup via horizontal computing cluster. Supported multi-megawatt platform type certification.
Nov 2010 – Jun 2014
Wind Engineer — Resource Assessment
Camargo Schubert Engenharia Eólica·Curitiba, Brazil
Wind resource assessment, meso/micro-scale flow modelling, blade aerodynamic design (BEM). Co-authored the Atlas Eólico da Bahia (2013), mapping 195 GW of wind potential. Automated reporting workflows — 60% reduction in production time.
IEC TS 61400-9:2025 — Probabilistic Design Measures for Wind Turbines. IEC TC88.
Secretary, Project Team PT 61400-9
IECRE/TC88 Joint Working Forum on Model Validation.
Contributor, alignment documents for the forthcoming IEC standard on aeroelastic model validation
Atlas Eólico da Bahia. Camargo Schubert / SECTI / SENAI CIMATEC.
Co-author. Wind potential mapping for the state of Bahia, Brazil (195 GW identified at 150 m).
Small browser-based tools built for specific engineering problems.
Coming soon.
I am available for consulting engagements and senior technical roles. If you have a problem at the boundary of wind energy engineering and data infrastructure, I would be glad to discuss it.
