Kaizen Forge

Software Engineering

Custom softwareand dedicated developers

A team of 11 developers led by Kayo Souza, a tech lead in US healthtech who has built for Nike and fintech: clean architecture, tests, observability, AI as a tool for every developer and review before the merge.

What we build

01

Products from scratch

From discovery to deploy: web, mobile and backend. SaaS, marketplaces and platforms, like Topo Contábil, which reached five-figure ARR in its first year.

02

Payment systems and critical integrations

Instant payments, cards, anti-fraud, settlement, signed webhooks. The specialty of the tech lead who led payments behind US$ 70M+ processed at Yooga.

03

AI systems and agents

Agents in production, orchestration, MCP, RAG and automation, with cost-per-operation metrics. We don't ship demos: we ship systems that operate.

04

Project rescue

That system nobody dares to touch anymore. Audit, stabilization and evolution, with documentation and tests so your team can take over.

Our standard, non-negotiable

  • Clean architecture with lint-enforced boundaries, the code doesn't rot

  • Tests and E2E from day one, deploy without fear

  • Observability built in: logs, metrics, alerts

  • AI where the result can be checked, and tech lead review before every merge

Dedicated developers

When you already have a team and need more people, our developers join your squad. You gain capacity without losing the standard.

01

Joins your workflow

Your repository, your board, your rituals. The developer works as part of your squad, not as an outside vendor.

02

With our standard

Tests, review before merge and acceptance criteria in every delivery: the same standard as our fixed-scope projects.

03

Tech lead behind it

The tech lead follows the delivery, reviews what matters and answers for quality. You don't manage a freelancer on your own.

04

No lock-in

The code and the knowledge stay with you. Documentation and handover are part of the work, not an add-on.

The squad

The team behind the code

A lean team from Vitória, Brazil, with AI at the center of the process: the people who sell, build, and respond are the same team, with no layers between you and delivery.

  • Kayo Souza

    Kayo Souza

    Tech Lead · LLM agents & Payments

    8+ years in production. Tech Lead of the nearshore team on Care Agent at Experity, led the Yooga payments team behind US$ 70M+ processed, and built Nike's Asset Library as sole engineer.

    TypeScriptAIPayments
  • Gabriel Wagnitz

    Gabriel Wagnitz

    Head of Security

    Computer Science (UFES), then most of a decade in Canadian cybersecurity: built and ran SOC ingest processing 3+ TB of security telemetry per day for 80+ organizations, with 10+ incident-response engagements. Also the co-builder of an offline-first civic platform he still maintains, seven years on. One engineer who builds the feature and secures the infrastructure under it.

    SecuritySIEMReact
  • João Holz

    João Holz

    Solutions Architect · ML & Data

    A statistician turned architect: time-series forecasting, production ML systems and data platforms. Architected Oráculo end to end, delivered a public-sector data platform serving 300+ municipalities leading a 6-12 engineer team, and shipped the MLOps architecture for a payment gateway. Research exchange in computer vision at Brno University of Technology.

    ArchitectureGoPython
  • Lucas Fabris

    Lucas Fabris

    Lead AI Engineer

    Built an AI lead-scoring product from an empty repo to production as sole engineer. Developed a native Android POS to stable release in two months, and is a key player in the payment integrations (Tuna, Apple Pay, Google Pay) behind US$ 70M+ processed. Owner attitude: takes things end to end.

    AI EngineeringNestJSAndroid
  • Ana Có

    Ana Có

    Designer · Lead Front-end

    A designer by degree who engineers: platform team at QuintoAndar, now owner of the design system behind a merchant app serving 4,393 active stores: 841 commits of components, prototypes and product screens. The reason our work looks like product, not project.

    Design SystemsTypeScript · ReactAngular
  • Eden Kiefer Junior

    Eden Kiefer Junior

    Full-stack Engineer

    Backend-focused full-stack engineer, twice dropped into stalled projects and twice took them to production: a cross-border e-commerce live in one month, a municipal accounting system in three, as tech lead. Also owns the loyalty vertical on an engine with 1.1M participating consumers. Speaks little, ships a lot.

    Full-stackJavaIntegrations
  • Willian Kuhn Littig

    Willian Kuhn Littig

    Automation & Infrastructure Engineer

    Builds the operational backbone: marketplace integrations processing 1,000+ invoices a month, WhatsApp automations where AI answers questions on its own, and Oráculo's persistence backend: 10,000+ real sessions processed in production.

    AutomationInfraNode
  • Gustavo Stein dos Santos

    Gustavo Stein dos Santos

    DevOps & Backend Engineer

    Backend and infrastructure: built the browser SDK and Go ingestion API feeding Oráculo's models (10,000+ production sessions), stood up a BI department's infrastructure from zero and led its migration to AWS: 300+ dashboards serving millions of rows with no downtime, on a full Grafana observability stack.

    DevOpsGoData
  • Fábio Alexandrino

    Fábio Alexandrino

    Software Engineer

    Worked with me on the Nike projects. React and Node.js on large-scale products, front to back.

    ReactNode.js
  • Ana Carollyne

    Ana Carollyne

    Developer · Web & AI

    Builds client sites and AI integrations into the workflow, from briefing to launch.

    TypeScriptReactIA
  • Matteo Pozzatti Ciardo

    Matteo Pozzatti Ciardo

    Sales & Relationship

    Handles prospecting, support, and client follow-up, from first contact to after-sales.

    VendasRelacionamentoClientes
  • Ricardo Secchin

    Ricardo Secchin

    Lead Mobile

    Android developer with apps in production, who has worked on teams in Brazil and Portugal. Leads the team's mobile work.

    AndroidMobile

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