🏗️ The Architect

I build structures that help people feel safe enough to do their best work.

Some of those structures are technical, like identity frameworks, supply chain security protocols, the invisible architecture that keeps organizations from falling apart. Others are harder to name: the culture of a team, the character of a leader, the quiet confidence that lets someone speak truth in a room full of pressure.

For over twenty years, I've worked at the intersection of these two worlds. Cybersecurity executive by title, but really just someone who looks at complex, messy environments and asks: Where can we introduce order? Where can we create safety?

The Crossing

I was born in Brazil, raised by builders.

My father started managing a store at twelve years old and spent his life turning small beginnings into something larger. My mother worked her way from classroom teacher to Branch Manager at one of Brazil's largest banks, and later wrote a book called Muda Mundo, arguing that societal change starts with individual transformation.

I inherited their conviction that what you build should outlast you.

Over a decade ago, I moved my family to the Canadian Rockies. New language, new landscape, new rules. That crossing taught me something no certification ever could: resilience isn't a technical term for servers. It's a human requirement. And the "soft skills" of leadership, the ones that don't fit on a slide deck, are often harder than anything I'd learned in cybersecurity.

The Turn

Somewhere along the way, I started writing.

Not because I'd figured everything out, but because the corporate formats couldn't hold what I needed to say. Slide decks have their place, but they don't capture the fear in a leader's chest when they have to make a call with incomplete information. Frameworks are useful, but they don't explain why some people earn trust and others just hold titles.

I wanted to write the things I wished someone had told me earlier, about security, about leadership, about the slow work of becoming someone worth following.

That's why I built Blanket Fort Reads.

The Work

Today, I serve as a Senior Manager at one of the largest professional services firms in the world, advising global organizations on cybersecurity and strategy. But the work that keeps me up at night happens here—in the books and articles where I can strip away the buzzwords and dive deeper into the complex ideas that don't fit on a presentation slide.

Current projects include The Heart of Influence (a book on character-driven leadership), technical deep-dives on supply chain security and identity frameworks, and whatever questions won't leave me alone.

The Invitation

If you've read this far, you're probably someone who thinks deeply about your work and wants more than surface-level answers.

You're welcome here.

Start with the Blog for ideas in progress, or explore the Library for the longer work. And if something resonates or if you disagree, I'd like to hear from you.

The fort has room.