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SPECIMEN CATALOG / NO. 001
STATUS Active
NAME Tiago Loriato
PROVENANCE Rio, Brazil → London, UK
Dreaming about Madrid.
NOTES
I'm obsessed with building. Not shipping — making something exist that didn't
before. Understanding how things stand up, and then standing something new up
myself. Lego, code, companies — the material changes, the compulsion doesn't.
The best things I've built started with someone saying "that's just how it works."
Beautiful systems teach you how they work just by using them — that's the standard.
If you have to explain it, you haven't finished building it.
I've done this at every scale — open source protocols, products at Teya, and now
from scratch with Awa. The scale changes. The question stays the same: what can I
make exist that doesn't yet?
CURRENT Product Engineering & Co-Founder @ Awa
INSTRUMENTS LLMs mostly. When forced to type: Go with joy, TypeScript with discipline, Python with resentment. Rust from a distance, with envy.
READINGS The Lean Product Playbook — Dan Olsen
Inspired — Marty Cagan
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
Amp It Up — Frank Slootman
Make Something Wonderful — Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Shape Up — Ryan Singer
High Output Management — Andrew Grove
How Big Things Get Done — Bent Flyvbjerg
INT.01 Cryptography
INT.02 AI
INT.03 Proc. Gen. — Minecraft, but make it academic
INT.04 Vexillology
WATCHING Arrested Development
The Office (US)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
24
White Collar
Sherlock
Person of Interest
The Blacklist
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Silicon Valley
Travelers
FIELD NOTE The shoemaker honours God not by putting crosses on his shoes, but by making excellent shoes.
COORD. 0.0000° N, 0.0000° E
UPDATED 2026-04-07
LANGUAGES Portuguese · English · Spanish