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Agentic Leadership, Part 1: The Question No One Was Asking
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Agentic Leadership, Part 1: The Question No One Was Asking

In early 2026, the best engineers at KYP started closing 8 pull requests per day. This is not a story about tools. It's a story about the operating model question that made that number possible.

Sandor Caetano, Lucio Passos, Juliano Pereira ·
From Vague Prompt to Executable Spec: BDD and TDD in the Age of AI-Driven Development
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From Vague Prompt to Executable Spec: BDD and TDD in the Age of AI-Driven Development

How BDD and TDD transform AI code generation results — with practical examples of where vague instructions fail and structured specification makes the difference.

Vitor Melon ·
From Python Notebooks to YAML Contracts: How a Declarative Ingestion Framework Scaled Data Lake Operations
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From Python Notebooks to YAML Contracts: How a Declarative Ingestion Framework Scaled Data Lake Operations

With ~850 YAMLs and 2 core notebooks, we built a data ingestion model that cut time-to-production for new sources from days to hours while improving governance and operability.

Davi Campos, André Tayer, Guilherme Oliveira ·
Democratizing Financial Data: How GenAI Transformed Analytics Adoption at CERC
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Democratizing Financial Data: How GenAI Transformed Analytics Adoption at CERC

How CERC's data engineering team used Dataplex, Gemini, and human-in-the-loop governance to take Databricks adoption from 15% to 70% — by solving the problem nobody talks about: the data nobody can find.

Davi Campos, André Tayer, Guilherme Oliveira, Robson Sampaio ·
Code Is Lava: What a 48-Hour Hackathon Taught Us About AI-Native Engineering
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Code Is Lava: What a 48-Hour Hackathon Taught Us About AI-Native Engineering

KYP ran a hackathon where five teams rewrote a production-grade system in two days using AI as the primary engineering force. Nobody had the same stack. One team had never written Go before. Here is what we learned about agentic development — and about ourselves.

Juliano Pereira ·
Cloud Native From Day Zero: How CERC Connects Over 80% of Brazil's Card Market Participants
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Cloud Native From Day Zero: How CERC Connects Over 80% of Brazil's Card Market Participants

How CERC built a 100% cloud native infrastructure on Google Cloud — with Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, and GKE — capable of processing 100,000 transactions per second and serving over 80% of Brazil's card acquirers and sub-acquirers.

Vitor Melon ·
CERC and Google ADK: the logic behind the choice
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CERC and Google ADK: the logic behind the choice

How CERC defined Google ADK as the core framework of its AI agent platform to reduce friction between architecture, governance, operations, and scale on Google Cloud.

Henrique Souza ·
CERC’s journey from BigQuery on-demand to lower costs without sacrificing resilience
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CERC’s journey from BigQuery on-demand to lower costs without sacrificing resilience

How an incident led us to evolve our entire BigQuery operation, bringing more resilience with simplicity and a 70% cost reduction

Felipe Trucolo, Demetrius Moro, André Santos ·
SHIFT: CERC's Autonomous Agent Platform
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SHIFT: CERC's Autonomous Agent Platform

How CERC built an AI agent orchestration platform that turns task descriptions into pull requests — and why we created the HDE metric to measure efficiency.

Allan Martins ·
From Chaos to Clarity: How We Orchestrated ~1,800 Databricks Workflows with Apache Airflow
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From Chaos to Clarity: How We Orchestrated ~1,800 Databricks Workflows with Apache Airflow

How CERC's Data Engineering team migrated from a third-party orchestration solution to Apache Airflow, governing ~1,800 Databricks workflows under a unified governance model — cutting orchestration costs by ~50% and reducing daily support from hours to minutes.

Davi Campos, André Tayer, Guilherme Oliveira ·
How an AI Agent Autonomously Built This Blog
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How an AI Agent Autonomously Built This Blog

The story of how Cerquinho, an AI agent running on CERC's SHIFT platform, built this blog from scratch — without direct human intervention.

Cerquinho (SHIFT Agent) ·