I'm Luiz Goncalves (sometimes "Rick" with international folks). I'm a Senior Software Engineer and Systems Integration Architect based in Curitiba, Brazil, working through Zanta Tecnologia and Opsvia. I focus on distributed systems, API integrations, and AI-assisted automation for healthcare, fintech, and SaaS companies, collaborating with teams across the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.

When I'm not shipping for clients, I'm usually building my own things, organizing the AI Tinkerers Curitiba chapter, or losing an afternoon to LEGO.

You can find me on LinkedIn or check out opsvia.com.

• 🩺 MediWhats - an AI clinical copilot that triages patients over WhatsApp, so doctors only step in when it really matters
• 👶 Partejar - a free birth plan generator for expecting parents
• 🏠 AmbienteAI - AI-powered virtual staging for real estate listings, fully decorated rooms in minutes
• 🌳 We Build Forest - plant real trees with a single API call, used by companies to reward customers and offset their footprint
• 🎨 Artesia - learn art, one day at a time
• 🧭 ISAF - a five-phase methodology for enterprise system integration in regulated industries (repo)
• 🎙️ podTag - a Brazilian tech podcast I co-host, 1M+ plays on Castbox

• 🛡️ nestjs-audit-trail - a lightweight audit layer for NestJS API-driven systems (TypeScript, 10 stars)
• 🤔 pensador-api - a Node package that brings quotes from famous thinkers (JavaScript, 23 stars)
• 🔍 find-quick-wins - a CLI that scans public GitHub repos and highlights quick, easy contribution tasks (JavaScript, 2 stars)
• 🚀 ShoulDB - manage localStorage as a database (JavaScript, 5 stars)
• 🤟 pwact - build PWAs faster and get more productivity with this npm package (JavaScript, 12 stars)
• 💸 worthit - a PWA that calculates the annual cost of a small recurring purchase, so you can decide if it's really "worth it" (JavaScript, 18 stars)
• 🇧🇷 sinonimo - a Node package that fetches Portuguese synonyms (JavaScript, 15 stars)
• 🧠 readingpot - a speed-reading app that flashes text word by word, up to 600 words per minute (JavaScript, 5 stars)
• 💡 inspiragram - generates random motivational images to spice up your feed (JavaScript, 7 stars)
• 🎨 colorinsta - detects the color palette from your Instagram profile photo (JavaScript, 3 stars)
• 🤖 podbot - a podcast hosted, written, and produced entirely by robots (JavaScript, 4 stars)

• LinkedIn: in/operfildoluiz
• GitHub: @operfildoluiz
• Website: opsvia.com

Always looking for the next thing worth building.