Serial founder · Solutions architect · Applied-AI specialist — 27 years, 168 projects, 66 organisations, Brazil and the United States.
Founder of four technology companies since 2005 — Marzullo Soluções (2005), Sinn Tecnologia (2010), MZ Unlimited LLC (2015, Delaware) and Arcolabs (2016) — plus the family holding Marzullo Participações (2015). Trusted by Disney-licensed PlayEduca (Escola 24 Horas), Petrobras and the São Paulo State Court of Accounts (TCE-SP) across GovTech, EdTech, AI/ML and Enterprise.
Get to know me
Software systems architect by training (D.Sc., COPPE/UFRJ). My field is software systems architecture and applied computing — distributed, data-intensive and AI-enabled systems: 27 years, 168 projects and 66 organisations served in Brazil and the United States, from the Brazilian Navy and the São Paulo State Court of Accounts (TCE-SP) to Petrobras, Disney-licensed PlayEduca and Lionsgate.
Since 2019 my practice has centred on applied AI and machine learning — Postgraduate Diploma in Machine Learning and AI (Emeritus with Columbia Engineering Executive Education, 2020, grade 9.22/10) and MIT Sloan Executive Education's blockchain programme (2019). A dozen AI, machine-learning and data-mining projects, from the Sinntesis tender-analysis tool deployed at TCE-SP to BeyondRisk's data lake and LLM analytics, Lionsgate's generative-AI recommendation APIs and the Claim.md AI/ML programme; editor of IGI Global's 2026 volume on large language models for business analytics.
Founder of four technology companies since 2005 — Marzullo Soluções (2005), Sinn Tecnologia (2010), MZ Unlimited LLC (2015, Delaware) and Arcolabs (2016) — plus the family holding Marzullo Participações (2015). Teams led: about 20 at Sinn, 25 at Arcolabs, 32 on PlayEduca Disney Edition, about 30 engineers across six BairesDev assignments, ten at BeyondRisk and, in 2026, MZ Unlimited's delivery team of eight to nine independent contractors.
Postgraduate Diploma in Machine Learning and AI — Emeritus with Columbia Engineering Executive Education (2020, 9.22/10). A dozen AI/ML and data-mining projects: Sinntesis at TCE-SP, BeyondRisk's data lake and LLM analytics, Lionsgate's recommendation APIs, Newsela, Claim.md and Ledgi.
Critical systems for the Brazilian Navy through COPPE/UFRJ — SISALI (project manager, 2008–2012), SINGRA, Quaestor and DFM-BI — and 29 systems for TCE-SP under contracts 63/2015 and 36/2017.
Doctor of Science in Systems and Computer Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ. Author of two books adopted by 20 Brazilian public bodies, editor of two IGI Global volumes and author of eighteen peer-reviewed articles and papers; 91 Google Scholar citations, with work cited, taught or held in thirteen countries outside Brazil.
Founder of four technology companies since 2005 — Marzullo Soluções, Sinn Tecnologia, MZ Unlimited LLC (Delaware) and Arcolabs — plus the family holding Marzullo Participações. MZ Unlimited LLC owns the Ledgi Tech, Unlimited AI and Unlimited Studio brands.
What I bring
A comprehensive technology stack built over 27 years of hands-on delivery across 168 projects.
Career journey
27 years as founder, CTO and architect across government, enterprise and startup environments — from the Brazilian Navy to Lionsgate.
MZ Unlimited LLC
Delaware company founded in May 2015: the U.S. vehicle for client engagements (GloryMakeup Inc., 2021–2026; Claim.md since May 2026), publisher of record of 22 iOS titles and owner of the Ledgi Tech, Unlimited AI and Unlimited Studio brands. Lead professional on the Claim.md engagement — AI/ML, cybersecurity, solutions architecture and engineering — directing a delivery team of eight to nine engineers and small engineering firms engaged as independent contractors.
Echo Harbor Tech
Leading the AI/ML and software engineering team behind Echo Harbor Press, Echo Harbor News, WikiClip and AIThinks: API-driven infrastructure supporting real-time analytics and complex data integrations. WikiClip and AIThinks began as assignments for Echo Harbor Press through BairesDev.
Marzullo Soluções em Gestão Empresarial Ltda. (MZ Empresarial)
Custom software development and licensing company founded in Rio de Janeiro in 2005; 25 register projects, including the Sevena makeup and augmented-reality apps for GloryMakeup, ten integration interfaces for Bull, Dr. Licita (AI for public procurement), Smart-Share and Kasalink. The services and products of Sinn Tecnologia and Arcolabs, which no longer operate, were consolidated here.
BeyondRisk
Assembled and led about ten engineers; MVP delivered in four months. Architected the company's data lake (RabbitMQ, Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino), the LLM-powered analytics and the AI-6 application-builder engine, and led the integrated call-centre and cybersecurity projects.
BairesDev LLC
Ten client assignments through BairesDev: Newsela (content-discovery service), Lionsgate (generative-AI title recommendation), Echo Harbor Press (WikiClip and AIThinks), Enigma AI, MVP-Index, Real Geeks, Hensalco-op, Partner ESI and Redica. Technical leader on six of the ten, directing teams of about five developers each (about 30 engineers in all); architected Python and AI/ML/LLM solutions for U.S. enterprise customers.
Lionsgate (via BairesDev)
Engineered high-performance APIs to power content recommendation engines that improved user engagement metrics. Worked closely with data scientists and ML experts to integrate predictive algorithms into production systems.
GloryMakeup Inc. (Fremont, California)
Designed and developed backend infrastructure for a cutting-edge mobile augmented reality application, significantly enhancing user experience. Delivered a robust, scalable system supporting rapid growth and high availability.
Tribunal de Contas do Estado de São Paulo (TCE-SP)
Led the architecture and delivery of 29 systems for the Court's digital transformation in public management and finance control, under software-factory contracts 63/2015 and 36/2017 signed as Sinn's managing partner (about R$ 3.92 million in documented extensions); the Court's 2018 Certificate of Technical Capacity (7,500 function points) attests delivery to service levels and quality. Key systems: the 2020 remote-sessions system (85 emergency videoconference sessions under Resolução nº 02/2020), Protocolo Digital (7,979 electronic filings in its first fourteen months), the IEG-M panel (644 municipalities, 2015), the Fiscalize citizen-reporting app (9,330 downloads by June 2021) and De Olho na Escola (16,892 schools registered and 31,497 views in its first three months).
Sinn Tecnologia (no longer operating; consolidated into Marzullo Soluções)
72 register projects, as solutions architect of every engagement, leading a technical team of about 20: 29 systems for TCE-SP, business-intelligence dashboards for the Ministry of Labour (MTE), Rio de Janeiro City Hall and CGEE, and the Sinn.id, Sinn.wallet and Sinntesis product line. Selected by BrazilLAB, Brazil's GovTech hub, for its 2019–2020 acceleration cycle (28 of 300+ applicants) and certified under its Selo GovTech. Sole partner since March 2024.
Arcolabs (no longer operating; consolidated into Marzullo Soluções)
Oversaw technical direction and game design for a portfolio of 18 mobile games and apps with a 25-person studio team. PlayEduca Disney Edition (Escola 24 Horas, 2018–2020): lead architect and head of development, leading front-end and back-end teams of 32. Other titles: 'O Diário de Mika', 'Senninha App', 'Game do Corinthians', 'Mundo Bita' and 'Zoorquestra'.
COPPE/UFRJ — Database and Knowledge Management Department
Delivered 21 register projects across finance control, HR, logistics and telecommunications for the Brazilian Navy, Petrobras, Embratel, MCTI and other institutional clients — including SISALI, the Navy's warship logistic-support and maintenance system (project manager, 2008–2012), SINGRA (supply management with NATO catalogue integration) and Quaestor (led six developers). Modernized legacy systems and introduced agile methodologies.
Entrepreneurship
Four technology companies founded in Brazil and the United States since 2005 — a COPPE/UFRJ-born consultancy, a software factory, a games studio and a U.S. company — plus the family holding Marzullo Participações. Two operate today: MZ Empresarial in Brazil and MZ Unlimited LLC in the United States; Sinn Tecnologia and Arcolabs were consolidated into MZ Empresarial.
Founder and Chief Executive Member
The group's U.S. company: the vehicle for U.S. client engagements (GloryMakeup Inc., 2021–2026; Claim.md since May 2026), Apple publisher of record of 22 iOS titles, and owner of the Ledgi Tech, Unlimited AI and Unlimited Studio brands. Its 2026 delivery team of eight to nine engineers and small engineering firms works as independent contractors.
Founder and Managing Partner
COPPE/UFRJ-native consultancy and software house: solutions architecture, custom development, data and BI, AI and blockchain for the public and private sectors. Since absorbing Sinn Tecnologia and Arcolabs it is the group's Brazilian operation, running Ledgi Suite, TrustedIndex and Amigos Super Sabidos.
Founder and Managing Partner
Family holding company of the group's Brazilian operations. MZ Empresarial operates as part of the group, with MZ Unlimited LLC as its counterpart in the United States.
Founder, CEO, Managing Partner and CTO
Software factory and data-analytics house, also COPPE/UFRJ-native, with a technical team of about 20: 72 register projects, including 29 for TCE-SP under contracts 63/2015 and 36/2017, BI dashboards for the Ministry of Labour, Rio de Janeiro City Hall and CGEE, and the Sinn.id, Sinn.wallet and Sinntesis products. Selected by BrazilLAB, Brazil's GovTech hub, for its 2019–2020 acceleration cycle (28 of 300+ applicants) and certified under its Selo GovTech.
Co-founder and CTO
Digital entertainment and educational games studio with a 25-person team (2016–2020): 18 register projects, including PlayEduca Disney Edition (teams of 32), Mika's Diary, Senninha, Mundo Bita, Zoorquestra and Authentic Games (licence; developed by Little Giants Studio).
What I've built
8 landmark projects spanning government, entertainment, education, defense, and AI — each delivering measurable, real-world impact.
Tribunal de Contas do Estado de São Paulo (TCE-SP)
Challenge
COVID-19 halted in-person sessions in April 2020. Under Resolução nº 02/2020 the Court needed a session, voting and agenda system to keep deliberating on the public spending of the 644 municipalities it audits.
Solution
Designed and delivered the session, voting and agenda system that supported the Court's emergency videoconference sessions — session management, electronic voting and role-based access.
Impact
85 remote sessions held during the pandemic, keeping the Court's oversight of the 644 municipalities running.
ProSolution (PSCS) — Brazilian Boards of Trade and municipalities
Challenge
Company incorporation in Brazil took five to six months due to fragmented, paper-based bureaucracy across multiple disconnected government agencies.
Solution
Built an integrated digital platform unifying state, municipal, and federal agencies into a single streamlined workflow with automated validation.
Impact
Incorporation time cut from five to six months to about 60 days. Present in more than 1,000 cities and nine Boards of Trade: all 92 municipalities of Rio de Janeiro state (2022), 144 in Pará and 279 in Bahia (2026), more than 100 in Pernambuco (2023); 250 Santa Catarina municipalities by 2009, with 676 municipal servants trained.
Escola 24 Horas (Disney-licensed)
Challenge
Brazilian schools needed engaging, curriculum-aligned digital learning that could genuinely compete with entertainment for young children's attention.
Solution
Developed an educational game platform featuring licensed Disney characters, with activities by Brazilian educators aligned with the National Curriculum Base (BNCC) for pre-school — as lead architect and head of development, leading front-end and back-end teams of 32.
Impact
Released in August 2019; reached more than 100,000 children (client-reported), developing the literacy and numeracy skills pre-school children need. Acquired by a national educational group in 2022 (client's account).
Lionsgate (via BairesDev)
Challenge
Lionsgate's streaming platform had low content discovery rates and poor user engagement — manual curation couldn't scale to match catalog size.
Solution
Engineered high-performance ML recommendation APIs analyzing viewing patterns, content metadata, and collaborative signals via Python + FastAPI on AWS.
Impact
Measurable improvement in user engagement metrics. Personalized recommendations serving Lionsgate's full content catalog at production scale.
Brazilian Navy / COPPE/UFRJ
Challenge
The Brazilian Navy relied on disconnected legacy systems for supply cataloguing, warship maintenance logistics and financial management.
Solution
Delivered, through COPPE/UFRJ, SINGRA (supply management with NATO catalogue integration), SISALI (warship logistic support and maintenance, 2008–2012, as project manager), Quaestor (led six developers) and DFM-BI (the Finance Directorate's dashboard).
Impact
SISALI was the Navy's first warship logistic-support and maintenance system; in 2013 the Navy's Integrated Logistics Support Bureau (NALIM) recorded Fabio as its project manager.
BeyondRisk
Challenge
A next-generation risk management company needed to transform raw, siloed cybersecurity data into actionable executive intelligence at scale.
Solution
Assembled a team of about ten engineers and shipped the MVP in four months. Designed the full data architecture (RabbitMQ, Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino) and built LLM-powered BI dashboards plus the AI-6 application builder.
Impact
Real-time analytics pipeline processing cybersecurity events at enterprise scale. AI-powered insights reducing analyst workload and accelerating threat response.
Newsela (via BairesDev)
Challenge
Newsela's K-12 platform needed a new content-discovery service to deliver personalized content to its teachers and students at scale.
Solution
Built ML-powered microservices using content similarity analysis and clusterization to intelligently match articles to student reading levels and interests.
Impact
Content-discovery service deployed on a platform serving nearly 1 million teachers and 9 million students. Recommendation engine on AWS Lambda serving personalized feeds at scale.
TCE-SP / São Paulo State Government
Challenge
The 644 municipalities audited by the Court had no unified accountability dashboard — citizens and auditors couldn't compare management effectiveness or identify underperforming governments.
Solution
Built the interactive data-visualisation dashboard computing the Municipal Management Effectiveness Index (IEG-M) for the 644 municipalities, launched in 2015.
Impact
First unified public accountability tool for the 644 municipalities audited by the Court, enabling citizens and journalists to hold local governments accountable; cited in the Court's 2018 Innovare submission.
Academic background
A strong foundation spanning computer science, AI, business, and law.
COPPE / UFRJ
2008 – 2014 · Thesis: software-development services, an approach to the reuse of conceptual models · advisor Prof. Jano Moreira de Souza, defended March 2014 · CNPq scholarship
COPPE / UFRJ
2003 – 2006 · Dissertation: an approach to software-project tracking · advisors Profs. Ana Regina Rocha and Geraldo Xexéo · CAPES scholarship
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
1996 – 2003 · Completed 2002; degree conferred 20 February 2003
Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
2009 – 2011 · 504 hours · grade 9.47/10, top 5% of the class
Emeritus with Columbia Engineering Executive Education
2019 – 2020 · overall 9.22/10 (Applied ML 9.29, Applied AI 9.15), capstone passed · Python for Data Science, August 2020
MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Education (with GetSmarter)
December 2019
Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
2020 · 30 hours · grade 9.3
Sun · Borland · IEEE · SOFTEX/COPPE · DataCamp
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (2002) · Borland JBuilder 8 Product Certification (2003) · IEEE Computer Society certificate, 2008 Summer School on Services Computing, Honolulu · SOFTEX/COPPE MPS.BR course (2005) · 34 DataCamp certificates (2019–2020) · U.S. equivalence of the three degrees confirmed by Carnegie Evaluations (November 2022)
Thought leadership
Two books (2009, 2012), two edited IGI Global volumes (2021, 2026) and eighteen peer-reviewed articles and papers (2006–2011) — 91 Google Scholar citations, presented in person in six countries.
IGI Global · published 20 May 2026
Edited volume (editor), published 20 May 2026: practical applications of LLMs in business intelligence and data analytics. ISBN 9798369366905 (e-book 9798369366929) · DOI 10.4018/979-8-3693-6690-5 · Library of Congress cataloguing names Fabio Perez Marzullo as editor.
2012
iOS development guide for the Brazilian developer community (Novatec, 2012). Assigned in curricula at UTFPR, IFTO, IFS and IFRS; five copies bought by UniRV for its Software Engineering library (2017).
2009
Service-oriented architecture for business innovation (Novatec, 2009). Required reading in 15 public hiring and promotion examinations by 10 public bodies (2011–2022) and assigned in curricula at UTFPR, UERN, IFMT, IFC and other institutions; 40 Google Scholar citations.
IGI Global, 2021
Edited volume (co-editor, with Felipe Antonio de Oliveira): eight chapters by authors in seven countries; indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science Book Citation Index; a representative text of Foothill College's course LINC 60C — Educational Game Design. DOI 10.4018/978-1-7998-5021-2.
Barcelona · Berlin · Portland · Honolulu · Las Vegas · Rome · Vancouver · Paris · Cologne
Nine academic events in four countries: ICEIS 2008 Barcelona · ECMDA-FA 2008 Berlin · IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2008 Portland · IEEE SERVICES / SOA Industry Summit 2008 Honolulu · WORLDCOMP 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Las Vegas · IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 Rome. Industry events: XDS 2017 and 2019 Vancouver, Game Connection Europe 2017 Paris and Gamescom 2018 Cologne (Arcolabs delegate, presenting Amazing Wise Friends); Anima Forum 2016, Rio (consultant-evaluator, Anima Business: Coaching).
Eighteen articles, chapters and conference papers published by Springer, IGI Global, the Association for Information Systems, IEEE-, IADIS-, INSTICC- and CSREA-organized conferences and Brazil's CONSAD public-management congress, on model-driven architecture, domain-driven development, SOA and IT governance in government. 91 Google Scholar citations to ten works; the ICIS 2010 paper has 244 downloads and 547 PlumX interactions on the AIS eLibrary, with readers in 37 countries.
Reach and impact
What the record shows beyond the project count: the books in use at public institutions, citation abroad, editorial service and teaching. Figures as of November 2026; the full account is on the Reach & Impact page.
SOA na Prática (2009) and iPhone na Prática (2012) are used as teaching and examination texts by Brazilian public institutions with no connection to the author: 20 public bodies at 25 campuses or units in 13 states, 2010–2025. SOA na Prática was required reading in 15 public hiring and promotion examinations by 10 public bodies (2011–2022).
Research groups at TU Wien, the University of Aveiro, the University of Münster, the Universidad de Alcalá and Christ University (Bangalore) analyse or cite the papers. The 2021 IGI Global volume is indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science Book Citation Index, is a representative text at Foothill College (California) and is held in Canada, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Taiwan, Kuwait, Indonesia and Portugal — thirteen countries outside Brazil in all.
Editorial Review Board member of two IGI Global journals (IJGBL, IJDET) and of IGI Global's Research Insights Editorial Advisory Board; 32 manuscript evaluations, seven ranked 'Very Strong'. Professor of Software Architecture in the MBA in Software Engineering at Escola Politécnica/UFRJ (2009–2018): 32 cohorts, 92 monographs supervised and judged.
Let's connect
Available for strategic consulting, technical leadership roles, and AI/ML projects worldwide.
fabio@mzunlimited.com
Phone
+1-689-236 2249
linkedin.com/in/fpmarzullo
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil