About

My name is Wagner Montes. I'm from a medium-sized city in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. My family is full of engineers. I started programming when I was eight — not well, but I liked it, and I never stopped.

Then I went to film school. I studied at USP in São Paulo, graduated in film studies, and became a cinematographer. I worked in cinema for a bit. I still have an IMDB page if you want to check.

What pulled me out of film was video on demand. I got in right at the start — early Netflix days, when the first VOD platforms were launching in Brazil. I worked on those platforms, ended up doing a Master's in VOD, and slowly moved into software and distributed systems, still around telecom and video.

Then I moved to Canada. Here, I became a business analyst. The job is basically sitting between the people who know what needs to be built and the people who build it, making sure everyone is talking about the same thing. I work with government, with BC ministries, with big legacy systems that can't afford to break. I've done consulting, worked for firms, and now I run my own company. My day job is requirements, data, system design, documentation — that kind of work.

I also studied data science along the way, and I've been working with LLMs for a few years now.

In my spare time, I build software. Some people call it vibe coding, but the version I do is not the chaotic one people make fun of online. I use my experience in product and requirements to keep the AI under control and actually ship things. I don't need to charge for these tools because my services work already pays the bills. So I just build stuff I want to use and put it out there.

wawa-note was the first one. Feedmine is the next tool in that same line of work: personal software, shaped around how I actually want to think, read, and remember things.