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Vilson Ranijak

Product Engineer | AI & Full-Stack | Product-Oriented, Scalable Systems

Product Engineer with 6+ years of experience building high-volume AI platforms, mission-critical financial infrastructure, and leading engineering squads from zero to scale.

Currently leading a new mobile vertical at Clinicorp.

Selected work

Clinicorp·2023 - 2024·Tech lead & architect · 3-person squad

In-house billing & recurring payments engine

Replaced a third-party subscription-billing vendor with an in-house engine that owns the full recurrence lifecycle, and never double-charges a customer.

Highlights

  • Impact: Saved $200k+ in third-party vendor fees by engineering a proprietary billing engine from scratch, replacing external dependencies.
  • Engineering: Architected a fault-tolerant system featuring strict idempotency guarantees, asynchronous acquirer webhooks, and a double-entry ledger for zero-error automated reconciliation.
  • Product: Owned the full recurrence lifecycle, delivering dynamic dunning, PIX payments, and automated local tax document (NFSe) generation.

Products & ventures

Ellas Chat

Live2025 - 2026

Meta-Certified WhatsApp Automation & AI SaaS

Engineered an AI-driven customer operations platform for Brazilian SMBs to transform single-number WhatsApp bottlenecks into structured, compliant multi-department workflows.

  • Meta Tech Provider Partner: Built 100% on the official Meta WhatsApp Business API, rejecting risky unofficial APIs. Achieved official Meta Tech Provider status and enterprise-grade data security.
  • Full-AI Workflow Architecture: Designed and deployed autonomous AI agents capable of handling initial customer triage, routing, and automated resolutions.
  • Operations & Governance: Integrated multi-department queuing, real-time team monitoring, and operational analytics into a unified dashboard.

Viella

In development2026

AI-Powered Virtual Closet & Personal Stylist App

A B2C fashion-tech startup aimed at democratizing personal styling. Built to solve the classic “wardrobe full of clothes, but nothing to wear” paradox. The app lets users digitize their physical wardrobe and interact with an AI stylist for recommendations and feedback. Currently in private beta validation.

  • Multimodal AI benchmarking & cost optimization: Conducted extensive evaluation and benchmarking of various LLMs and vision models. The core engineering challenge was striking the balance between high accuracy (analyzing fabrics, patterns and fashion context) and cost-efficiency for scalable inference.
  • Computer vision integration: Implemented image scanning to automatically catalog physical clothing items into a structured digital wardrobe.
  • Generative styling engine: Developed the prompt engineering and backend logic for the AI stylist, enabling it to suggest daily outfits from the user’s inventory and give critical feedback on user-created looks.
  • Product validation: Running iterative feedback loops with an early-adopter cohort to fine-tune model responses and UX.

Experience

Clinicorp Solutions

Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

Full-time · Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil · On-site

  1. Product Engineer

    Jan 2026 - Present · 9 mos

    Spearheading a new mobile product vertical to expand TAM, leveraging AI-assisted engineering workflows to build end-user features.

  2. Engineering Coordinator

    Sep 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Managed Enterprise Applications squads, aligning technical strategy with the CTPO and deploying AI support agents that saved $100k+ in operational costs.

  3. Tech Lead

    Mar 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Led a 4-person squad architecting an in-house billing engine ($200k+ saved in fees) and a Meta-integrated platform handling 30k+ monthly chats.

  4. Developer

    Jan 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Developed core payment infrastructure, acquirer integrations, and critical internal tooling, resulting in a fast-track promotion to Tech Lead.

WEG

Feb 2019 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

Full-time · Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil

  1. Electronics Maintenance Apprentice · CentroWEG

    Trained in industrial electronics diagnostics, hardware maintenance, and circuit troubleshooting at WEG's technical training center.

Education

FIAP

CompletedJul 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Technologist Degree in Systems Analysis & Development

Computer Software Engineering

  • Software development
  • SaaS

Stack

Languages
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • SQL
  • Python
AI
  • LLM APIs
  • Multimodal AI
  • Computer vision
  • AI agents
  • Structured outputs
  • Model benchmarking
  • API cost optimization
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Vector DBs
  • Event sourcing
  • Double-entry ledgers
Systems
  • Queues & outbox
  • Idempotent APIs
  • Webhooks at scale
  • State machines
  • JSON Schema
  • Multi-tenant SaaS
  • System governance
  • Acquirer APIs
  • WhatsApp Business Platform
Product
  • Next.js
  • React
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • iOS & Android
  • REST
  • Real-time analytics
  • Product discovery
Infra
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Vercel
  • AWS
  • GCP

Contact

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