Willian Pinho

Staff/Principal Software & AI Engineer · 15+ yrs · MCP maintainer (Claude Code, Cursor). Book me for: (1) recruiter intros for Senior/Staff/Principal roles, (2) AI agent architecture advisory, (3) technical due diligence on AI/ML stacks. Not the right calendar for: cold sales, generic "pick your brain", crypto.

Deep Dive (Paid Advisory)

Paid technical session — architecture audit, code review, AI/ML stack due diligence, or live problem-solving. The 5 booking questions below are the prep brief — please answer them thoughtfully before confirming. Empty / one-word answers = call gets rescheduled (your payment is held, not lost).<br data-soft="true"><br data-soft="true">Best fit: founders evaluating engineering quality, teams stuck on a specific architectural decision, VCs running technical due diligence on AI portfolio companies, or product leaders scoping an MCP/agent integration.<br data-soft="true"><br data-soft="true">Reschedule policy: free up to 24h before the call; payment forfeit otherwise. A public version of the prep brief (with examples and "what to expect" details) lives at gist.github.com/willianpinho/880b83c2e87a8008ecc9004fadea8e2e.

  • 60m
  • $300.00

Recruiter Intro

Quick screen for Senior/Staff/Principal-level roles in software engineering, AI/ML, or platform architecture. Best fit: hiring managers and recruiters with a specific opening to discuss.<br data-soft="true"><br data-soft="true">Please paste a 1-paragraph role brief in the booking notes (company, comp band, stack, mission). I'll come prepared and we'll know in 15 minutes if it's worth a deeper conversation.<br data-soft="true"><br data-soft="true">Out of scope: generic networking, "we'd like to add your profile to our talent pool", roles below Senior IC.

  • 15m

Technical Advisory (Free Discovery)

Free first call for teams working through AI agent architecture, MCP integration, RAG pipelines, or production MLOps decisions. Use this to scope a real problem and decide whether a paid Deep Dive makes sense.<br data-soft="true"><br data-soft="true">Bring: current state in 1-2 sentences, the specific question you're stuck on, and any hard constraints (stack, timeline, budget).<br data-soft="true"><br data-soft="true">Out of scope: cold sales pitches, "pick your brain" with no concrete question, requests to debug code I haven't seen.

  • 30m
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