Rafael Almeida

Rafael
Almeida.

I’m a GTM engineer: I build the systems between product, marketing and revenue. That means AI agents, full-stack products, campaigns and the operating workflows that make them usable, including DietProck, live with paying clients. After two summers at NVIDIA on the AI Factory campaign, I’ve accepted an offer to return to NVIDIA.

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  • Tampa, FL
  • B.S. AI & Business Analytics, USF, Dec 2026
  • Bilingual EN / PT
  • Founder, Cacao AI
120K+contacts in one NVIDIA nurture program I optimized
2×NVIDIA summers on the AI Factory campaign
10+client engagements, from medical manufacturing to real estate
500+hours a year saved by one marketing automation

NVIDIA

Two summers on the AI Factory campaign: field marketing and automation in 2025, full-funnel campaign marketing in 2026.

Full-funnel,
from search to inside sales.

In 2026, AI Factory Campaign Marketing Intern: the buyer's journey from search and AI answers through nurture to inside sales. In 2025, NALA Field Marketing Intern: automation across the marketing org. The client work further down is what I built in between.

perspectives.nvidia.com AI Factory page: the definition block and the FAQ answers underneath it
perspectives.nvidia.com Networking Technology page: the definition block and the FAQ answers underneath it
The answer surface I project managed, perspectives.nvidia.com for AI Factory and for Networking

I led the Agent Marketing and Answer Engine Optimization program across three product teams, the AI Factory, Networking and AI Data Platform, and managed the implementation of new FAQs across the main web pages. The two pages above are the result: a plain-language definition on top, the questions buyers actually ask underneath, written so a machine can quote them. Solution briefs for HGX, GB200 NVL72 and RTX PRO came out of the same desk.

The mid-funnel, optimized end to end: a 16-email nurture for 120,000+ contacts, Marketplace routing, and multi-channel inside-sales sequences. Ask an AI where to start on AI infrastructure and it cites the pages above. Marketing made legible to a machine.

I co-led a CEO-initiated partner program and drove adoption across a 100+ person partner marketing organization and its VP stakeholders, building the internal app, the AI workflow, the SOP and the roadmap behind briefs for 70+ strategic partners.

Then Campaign OS: a director's view with a cross-team Gantt chart for campaigns, assets, owners and deadlines, updated every day by a local automation that does its own context engineering. The summer closed with the AEO story presented to NVIDIA's CMO.

The summer before, on the NALA field marketing team, I led a ClickUp automation initiative across the marketing org: event management streamlined, hyper-personalized sales invitations by industry and region, 500+ hours a year saved. Plus an event-matching engine that pairs salespeople to events by subregion and industry.

2026
AI Factory Campaign Marketing Intern · May to Aug
2025
NALA Field Marketing Intern · May to Aug
Funnel
Search · AEO · Nurture · Inside Sales
Scale
120,000+ contacts · 70+ partners · 3 product teams
Credential
NVIDIA-Certified Associate · AI Infrastructure & Operations
NVIDIA AI Factories page, one of the pages I optimized
NVIDIA AI Data Platform page, one of the pages I optimized
Had the opportunity to work with Rafael during his 2026 Summer stint at NVIDIA. He was an amazing resource for everyone who worked with him: helping manage communications, fleshing out marketing efforts, and building sustainable workflows that are still used today. The preparation and thoughtful insights he brings to every conversation make him incredible to work with. 10/10 would recommend. I know he will do great wherever he goes.
Joshua Widjanarko Master’s Computer Science student · Georgia Tech

Clients

Brands and teams who hired me to design, build and ship, from medical manufacturing to nutrition. Each one has its own page.

Lifetrek Medical website

Lifetrek Medical

Website with an AI assistant, CRM with lead scoring, a sketch-to-CAD tool, and an AI content engine for the blog and LinkedIn.

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Vora Solutions website

Vora Solutions

A precision medical-instrument brand: institutional site, identity, storefront and design system.

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DietProck landing page

DietProck

Founding Engineer. Two AI agents on one WhatsApp number, meal plans to PDF. Live with paying clients.

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Personal Projects

Things I built because I wanted them to exist, shipped to real app stores and airwaves.

A quiet habit,
carefully engineered.

A native mobile app for the daily rosary, in English and Portuguese.

Native iOS and Android, Expo and React Native with Supabase and anonymous auth. A daily rosary with streaks and progress that stays out of the way.

Built for one thing: showing up every day. No account wall, no noise, just the prayer and a gentle record of the habit.

Platform
iOS · Android
Stack
Expo · React Native · Supabase
Auth
Anonymous
Languages
EN / PT
Daily Rosary app home screen
Daily Rosary app progress screen

Two days of AI,
broadcast nationwide.

Founded and produced end to end, the event and the media machine around it. Two days at the DX Business Center, two AI authorities flown in from Brazil, and a nationwide press push carrying it.

A two-day AI workshop produced end to end, carried by a nationwide media campaign, live television with Dr. Juan Pablo and radio segments, positioning the client as a regional AI authority. I owned the product and the go-to-market.

The funnel was mine the whole way down: paid media into booked calls into closed seats, creative rewritten each week against whatever the ads were actually returning. Two authorities flown in from Brazil, a room held, and a press calendar that had to land before the doors opened.

Format
2-day workshop · live TV · radio
Venue
DX Business Center
Press
TV Connect · LIDE · DX · Radio Florida Brazil
Role
Founder · product · go-to-market
Outcome
REGIONAL AI AUTHORITY
Rafael presenting at the Work Shock conference
Workshop audience
Presentation slide on AI agents
Presentation slide with AI timeline
Inside Work Shock. Rafael introduces the AI workshop from the venue.
On national television. Behind the scenes of our television appearance to promote Work Shock.
An AI workshop session at Work Shock, with participants around the table and a presenter explaining a slide
In the room. A session with the Work Shock participants.
The footage that survived, the room, the stage and the testimonials the attendees filmed on the way out

School

The fundamentals: a degree in progress, notebooks full of neural networks, an experiment nobody has run, and the toolkit I actually reach for.

The fundamentals,
put to work.

Pursuing a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics with a minor in Marketing at the University of South Florida, graduating December 2026. The learning that is not on a client's site lives in the coursework: a loan-default classifier chosen on the cost of a false negative, a healthcare pipeline built so the holdout could never leak, an experiment designed out of four journal papers, a Tableau final and a PostgreSQL system. No client, no deadline, just the craft.

  • USF Presidential Award, the university's highest academic scholarship
  • Florida Academic Scholar, Bright Futures
See the coursework

Stack I actually use

  • Claude
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Supabase
  • Vercel
  • Google Cloud
  • Stripe
  • Mercado Pago
  • Expo
  • GSAP
  • LangGraph
  • PostgreSQL
  • Codex

Certifications

  • NVIDIA-CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE · AI INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS · 2026
  • CLICKUP AI AGENT BUILDER · AUG 2025
  • WRITER NO-CODE AI AGENT BUILDER · AUG 2025
  • LINKEDIN AGENTIC AI FUNDAMENTALS · APR 2025
University of South Florida Bulls

University of South Florida

B.S. Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics, minor in Marketing. Tampa, graduating December 2026.

Loan-default prediction model lab: decision trees versus neural networks, cross-validated

Machine learning coursework, a loan-default classifier: decision trees vs. neural nets, stratified k-fold cross-validated

Not Your Mother's Clean Freak brand and campaign mood board

Brand and campaign coursework, a visual mood board for a Not Your Mother's Clean Freak campaign

One operator,
logged by orbit.

Portrait of Rafael Almeida

B.S. Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics with a minor in Marketing, University of South Florida, December 2026. USF Presidential Award. Founder of Cacao AI. Bilingual EN and PT, based in Tampa, FL.

  1. Incoming

    NVIDIA

    Offer accepted.

  2. 2026

    NVIDIA

    AI Factory Campaign Marketing Intern. May to Aug 2026.

  3. 2026+

    DietProck

    Founding Engineer. Feb 2026 to present.

  4. 2025–present

    Lifetrek Medical

    GTM Engineer. Nov 2025 to present.

  5. 2025+

    Cacao AI

    Founder and GTM Engineer. Feb 2025 to present.

  6. 2025

    NVIDIA

    NALA Field Marketing Intern. May to Aug 2025.

  7. 2025

    Work Shock

    Founder. Apr to Aug 2025.

  8. 2024–25

    BonBon Strategic

    Project and Operations Manager. Sep 2024 to May 2025.

  9. 2023–24

    LeadIt Digital

    Co-Founder and CMO. Nov 2023 to Aug 2024.

Open
a channel.

Graduating December 2026. For professional inquiries, reach me by LinkedIn, email or WhatsApp.

WhatsApp me rafacrvg@icloud.com