About

I'm Wagner Montes. I'm Brazilian, from a medium-sized city in the interior of São Paulo. I moved to the capital to study at the Universidade de São Paulo, where I earned a degree in film studies. I became a cinematographer. I come from a family of engineers, and technology has been around me since I was a kid. I started programming at eight years old. I was never great at it, but I never stopped.

I worked in cinema for a while — here is my IMDB page. Then I moved into video on demand, right at the beginning of that industry — the early Netflix era, when the first VOD platforms were launching in Brazil. I worked actively on those early platforms and later earned a Master's degree focused on VOD. From there I drifted into software development and distributed solutions, still mostly around telecom and video.

When I moved to Canada, the work became more technical. Life pushed me toward business analysis — understanding requirements, mapping systems, and helping modernize legacy platforms. I work with government, with several BC ministries, and with large systems that need to evolve without breaking. I have been a consultant, I have worked for consulting firms, and now I have my own company. My day job is technology services: requirements gathering, data manipulation, system design.

I also have a background in data science, and I have been working directly with LLMs and AI projects for several years now.

In my spare time, I build software. Some people call it vibe coding, but it is not the chaotic version people complain about online. I use my experience in product development and requirements to keep the AI under control and actually deliver value. I have the privilege of not needing to charge for this work — my services business already pays the bills — so I can build things that help me and, hopefully, help other people too.

wawa-note is the first of those things.