Founder & GM
Silicon Village
A software studio founded in Brazil and scaled over four years across staff augmentation, venture building and product development — now operating cross-border as SV Dev LLC.
svdev.tech ↗
Jeferson Guardezi · @jguardezi
Athlete's discipline.
Founder's vision.
Sport · Business · What one teaches the other
Founder of Silicon Village and judo black belt. I write about business, technology, life and faith — through what the mat keeps teaching me.
Discipline sets the direction. Not the outcome.
One life, five rooms. Each piece in the language of its subject — technical for code, blunt for business, quiet for faith.
01JudoThe mat as a laboratory. Kuzushi, ukemi, kumi-kata — and what they teach off the mat.02BusinessBuilding Silicon Village, selling outcomes instead of effort, and the decisions nobody posts about.03TechnologySoftware, AI, and the gap between a prototype that demos well and a product that survives production.04LifeTraining while running a company, family, routines — and the trade-offs behind them.05FaithWhat discipline can't control. The closing argument behind everything else.
Writing — coming soon
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Built & building
Tech partner · since 2024
Ultimate Drift
The technology behind Brazil's largest drift championship — every tool from track activity to the fan on the other side of the screen.
Fantasy game
Dorikin League
A fantasy game built on top of the Ultimate Drift championship — turning spectators into players for the whole season.
Building now
Tasso
An AI-native platform for dentists that goes beyond accounting — starting with dental practices, then the rest of healthcare.
From a robotics lab to the mat to the boardroom.
Research taught me rigor. Engineering management taught me people. Founding taught me that neither is enough without showing up when it's hard.
- NowFounder & General Manager
Silicon Village · SV Dev LLC - NowMBA
Escola Politécnica da USP — PECE - 2018–21Software Engineering Manager
Vector ITC - EarlierLogistics innovation
Ambev - EarlierEngineering
Ornitorrinko - 2012–15Research — Vision, Robotics & Imaging lab
UFPR · IEEE Computer Society publications, 2014 - StartUndergraduate & research
UTFPR
The mat
“You learn to fall before you learn to throw. Nobody skips ukemi — not on the mat, not in business.”
Black belt
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Business, technology, judo — or a bit of all three. I read everything that lands here.
jeferson@guardezi.com