# Claudio Teixeira

> AI Team Lead & Agentic AI Architect based in Lisbon, Portugal. 15+ years in software engineering, 7+ as CTO. Has shipped 20+ production AI/ML systems and 50+ SaaS products, and led or mentored 90+ engineers.

## Current
- Lead AI Engineer & Agentic AI Architect, RootedLogic.AI (Dec 2025 – present): agentic cybersecurity SaaS orchestrating autonomous agents across the SDLC; idea to production in 3 months.

## Experience
- CTO / Partner, ALTAR.io (Jan 2019 – Oct 2025): built the AI practice inside a 40-person product agency delivering 50+ production SaaS systems; AI teams of up to 30 ICs.
- CTO / Head of Engineering, Bannerwise, Beboc UK, FSB Technology (2014 – 2019): scaled engineering orgs from 2 to 90+ across AdTech, FinTech, iGaming and B2B field-service.

## Notable projects
- Bravano (EduTech / Voice AI): gamified training with real-time AI roleplay coaching agents.
- CareerMate (HR-Tech / MS Teams): proactive career-coaching agent (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, pgvector).
- PAIR (Enterprise AI / RAG): multi-tenant semantic search and knowledge extraction with RBAC.
- Humane Intelligence (AI governance): collaborative LLM red-teaming platform.
- Serhant (PropTech): multi-agent system and copilots for real-estate workflows.
- Bastyn Security (CyberSec): DAST/SAST scanner and autonomous red-teaming SaaS with custom mini-LLMs.

## Core stack
LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, MS AutoGen, MCP servers, RAG/GraphRAG, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, MLOps.

## Links
- Site: https://claudioteixeira.com
- Portfolio: https://claudioteixeira.com/portfolio
- Expertise: https://claudioteixeira.com/expertise
- Industries: https://claudioteixeira.com/industries
- Top 20 agentic app principles: https://claudioteixeira.com/principles
- About: https://claudioteixeira.com/about
- Contact: https://claudioteixeira.com/contact
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiotx
- GitHub: https://github.com/claudiotx