About
Edgar Gomes de Araujo is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Astrobee, where he develops agentic workflows that use generative AI and classical machine learning to build semantic data layers and knowledge graphs. He previously worked at Silk and, following its acquisition, at Palantir, focusing on distributed systems and petabyte-scale data problems, and earlier architected a research platform at Ghent University. He holds a patent related to AI-powered data search, extraction, and validation, and has more than 15 years of engineering experience.
Founder at Astrobee
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Galen MarchettiFounder
Experience
- AstroBeeChief Technology Officercurrent2025 — present
- KurtosisLead Software Engineer2023 — 2025São Paulo, Brazil
- Palantir TechnologiesForward Deployed Software Engineer2016 — 2023London Area, United Kingdom
- SilkSoftware Engineer2015 — 2016The Randstad, Netherlands
- Ghent UniversityMaterials Science Researcher2008 — 2015Ghent - Belgium
- Magma Engenharia do BrasilApplication Engineer2007 — 2008São Paulo - Brazil
- Instituto de Pesquisas TecnológicasScientific Researcher2005 — 2007
Skills & more
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data ModelingMachine Learning AlgorithmsSoftware DesignDistributed SystemsTeam LeadershipMachine LearningAlgorithm DesignSoftware DevelopmentProgramming1Haskell3Computational Modeling
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ModelingEngineeringWeb DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsCMatlabLaTeXMetallurgyMathematical ModelingMaterialsSimulations3D ModelingLanguages Dutch · English · Portuguese · Spanish
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Edgar Gomes de Araujo?
- Edgar Gomes de Araujo is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Astrobee, where he develops agentic workflows that use generative AI and classical machine learning to build semantic data layers and knowledge graphs. He previously worked at Silk and, following its acquisition, at Palantir, focusing on distributed systems and petabyte-scale data problems, and earlier architected a research platform at Ghent University. He holds a patent related to AI-powered data search, extraction, and validation, and has more than 15 years of engineering experience.
- Where does Edgar Gomes de Araujo work?
- Edgar Gomes de Araujo is Founder of Astrobee.
- What companies did Edgar Gomes de Araujo found?
- Edgar Gomes de Araujo founded Astrobee.
- Where did Edgar Gomes de Araujo go to school?
- Edgar Gomes de Araujo studied at USP - Universidade de São Paulo (Master's degree, Metallurgical Engineering); Ghent University (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Modeling in Materials Science).
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