Enzo Amaral

software engineer, AI + product

hey, i’m enzo :)

i’m a CS student @ Purdue (’27), SWE intern @ ServiceNow, and Zed campus ambassador. i grew up in Brazil building Minecraft plugins and mods, and now i obsess over LLMs and creating good user experiences.

i love talking to people, making lame ideas come alive, and playing Dungeons & Dragons. feel free to say hi if you’re building something cool or want to chat. if you’re looking for an engineer, here’s my résumé.

Experience

  • ServiceNow

    Internship · Summer 2026

    This summer I'm interning at ServiceNow, working on Build Agent, their agentic app builder, as part of the Core Platform Runtime Engineering team. Learning how software gets built when there's millions of active users.

  • Astor

    Internship · Spring 2026

    I was one of three engineers at Astor (YC S25), building an AI investment advisor that lives in your phone.

    At Astor, I fell in love with startups. I didn't know it was possible to learn that much in four months, but Astor kept proving me wrong. In those four months we built the product, launched it, and grew to 5,000+ users and $250M+ in connected assets.

    I worked deeply across the whole stack: the iOS app, the agentic harness, evals, context management, and a lot more. In the last month and a half, I was asked to also be a part of the Growth team, where I automated our marketing, built our "Growth AI Employee" end-to-end, and had a lot of fun writing r/wallstreetbets posts.

  • Tavernkeep

    Project · Since 2026

    I hated that there were no free and good campaign managers I could use to collaborate with my group when running my D&D campaign, so I built Tavernkeep. I co-founded it with my friend Rafa, and I'm the only engineer behind it.

    It gives a table everything it needs to run and manage a campaign in one place: collaborative wikis, interactive maps, live character sheets, and real-time multiplayer editing.

    Tavernkeep is completely free and sits at ~100 monthly active users, all from a single Reddit post and word of mouth. This is my passion project, and I don't think I'll ever stop building it.

  • Purdue University

    Teaching Assistant · Fall 2025

    In fall 2025 I was a teaching assistant for CS 250 (Computer Architecture) at Purdue. I've always loved teaching and helping people, so this was an easy fit.

    I supported ~200 students through weekly labs on systems fundamentals, from breadboards, to memory architecture, to assembly, guiding them through hands-on exercises in C.

    I met a lot of cool students and made friends along the way, and it paid for my weekly Raising Cane's.

  • BTG Pactual

    Internship x2 · Summers 2024 & 2025

    I spent my freshman and sophomore summers at BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, working on payment systems and applied AI.

    BTG was my first real workplace, where I learned how software is actually built when there are a lot of customers involved. In my first internship, I worked on the Payment Processing team ($2B a month!), where I optimized SQL queries, rewrote APIs, and shipped new features around airport lounge access.

    In my second internship, I joined a new team focused on building AI tools to automate processes and make BTG employees more productive. I led a team of two other interns to build an LLM-powered pipeline that generated and analyzed investment fund contracts and related documents. I still stay in touch with the team, and I'm happy to know it's still being used!

  • BRASA

    Volunteering · 2024 & 2025

    BRASA, the Brazilian Student Association, was my home after leaving Brazil.

    I went to Purdue not knowing a single soul, scared, but very eager to find my place, and BRASA helped me do exactly that.

    I started by being a member in the local Purdue chapter, which then turned into becoming a software engineering analyst for the global chapter, which finally culminated into me being the president of the Purdue chapter, taking care of more than 250 Brazilian students on campus, all while I still helped build the BRASA website, systems for our yearly conferences, and much more.

    In my heart, I will forever be at BRASA.