Jeferson Guardezi · @jguardezi
Jeferson Guardezi
Founder of Silicon Village and judo black belt. I write about business, technology, life and faith — through what the mat keeps teaching me.
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
Writing
- JudoThe mat as a laboratory. Kuzushi, ukemi, kumi-kata — and what they teach off the mat.
- BusinessBuilding Silicon Village, selling outcomes instead of effort, and the decisions nobody posts about.
- TechnologySoftware, AI, and the gap between a prototype that demos well and a product that survives production.
- LifeTraining while running a company, family, routines — and the trade-offs behind them.
- FaithWhat discipline can't control. The closing argument behind everything else.
“You learn to fall before you learn to throw. Nobody skips ukemi — not on the mat, not in business.”