Now

Last updated: September 2026.

Working

Tech Lead at Cadastra. I lead implementation and evolution squads for major brands.

My focus now is gamified experience: front-end, UX/UI and game feel, a web you play instead of only read. This site is the lab.

Founder of EltonLeao Tech LTDA. Custom software development and solution architecture consulting.

Studying

Postgraduate in Software Engineering with Applied AI (UniPDS). Systems Thinking (Donella Meadows), theater, existentialist philosophy, knowledge management.

Building

Games4Gifts — I turn people’s real stories into games. Someone tells me a memory — a birthday, a marriage proposal, an inside joke, a moment that changed everything — and I turn it into a playable pixel-art game. The characters are based on the real people, the settings on the memories, the dialogue on the story only those people know. In prototyping.

eltonleao.dev — this blog. Writing, iterating, trying not to be afraid to publish.

Practicing

Theater at Instituto de Teatro do Brasil. Violin. Singing. Tai Chi.

Learning

Japanese (JLPT N5 achieved, heading for N4). Spanish.

Reading

In the queue: Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows), Atomic Habits (James Clear), An Actor Prepares (Stanislavski), Communication Patterns.

Recently read: The Kybalion, Steppenwolf (Hesse), The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector), The Stranger (Camus).

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