Engineering and leadership
Products, systems, and teams that treat quality as a daily practice.
Software engineering · AI · Education · Open source
Otacilio Maia
I lead teams and build digital products connecting engineering, education, and social impact.
Every project is a technical decision that creates an impact on people.
My journey began with electronics, robotics, and embedded systems, then evolved into digital products, open-source communities, and engineering leadership.
Today, I turn complex problems into useful software — and help create environments where people can grow, too.
Products, systems, and teams that treat quality as a daily practice.
Technology with human review to expand access to education at scale.
Shared knowledge that lowers barriers and connects people.
Electronics, telemetry, and software meeting problems in the physical world.
A small selection of work where software, education, and community meet.
Engineering and generative AI supporting free educational content, with human review at the center of the process.
A Brazilian Portuguese layer that makes a learner’s first steps with Arduino feel closer and more accessible.
Projects and gatherings that turn contribution into belonging — and documentation into an open door.
Applied research in sensors, energy, data transmission, and software for observing the physical world.
Volume without method is just noise. These milestones tell part of the story — and show where they come from.
Generated from 1,428 lessons in a published AprendiZAP case study, with human review.
public sourceCo-inventor of telemetry, monitoring, and automation technologies.
One of the creators of the registered software SOFIA.
33 forks · GitHub public API
Updated 07/13/2026the start
Technical training, robotics, and embedded systems turn curiosity into prototypes.
then
Web, mobile, and open source take ideas beyond the workbench.
now
Educational products and engineering teams connect technical decisions to social impact.
Classes, stages, and communities as extensions of the same practice: making technology more accessible.
Courses on Git, GitHub, web fundamentals, and progressive web applications.
SpeakingTalks at conferences and communities about front-end, IoT, AI, and chatbots.
CommunityExperiences that treat community as part of technology’s infrastructure.
AprendiZAP used generative AI to create more than 8,000 educational activities through prompt engineering and teacher review.
How a library helps bring Brazilians into the Arduino world.
I enjoy conversations about engineering, education, communities, and difficult problems that need clarity.
contato@otaciliomaia.com