Erick Vavre — AI specialist, software engineer and consultant. Thirty years of code across three continents, from Y2K at a bank to national digital identity, now building Saga Labs.
Thirty years of shipping software, and the constant was never the stack — it was knowing what to build, debugged to the sound of Pongo snoring.
Y2K at Bank of America, million-dollar bugs at Bosch, code flowing through Itaipu — a career forged under Avenida Paulista's grey sky.
Faster Woolworths checkouts, Legal Aid interfaces that don't need translators, government forms Australians actually finish.
BankID logins grandmas manage alone, Vipps payments, FINN.no — where Pongo entered the story.
Thirty years building other people's visions; time to captain my own, with Pongo at the prow.
The longship docks at Praça do Comércio — Nordic simplicity meets Brazilian warmth in the new home port.
Erick and Pongo in the new Lisbon office: thirty years, three continents, one dog — come build something human.