About

Hi there 👋🏼 I’m Geoflly!

A Brazilian (and now also Irish) guy who’s been living in Ireland since 2017. I’ve lived in Waterford and Cork, and now live in Dublin.

I first came to Ireland to pursue a PhD in Computational Mathematics Applied to Biological Systems, which I finished in 2021. After finishing my PhD, I was recruited into finance. If I had to explain how that happened, I might borrow a line from the film Margin Call:

“Well, it’s all just numbers really. Just changing what you’re adding up.”

The numbers are different, but the work still involves trying to understand complicated systems, make sense of imperfect information, and work out what matters.

Before all that, I studied Electrical Engineering in Brazil and spent a year abroad studying in the United States. I’ve moved away from engineering professionally, but I never really lost the scientific curiosity that drew me to it in the first place. I still enjoy reading about engineering and technology in general. Occasionally, I also like tinkering with things myself.

Today, I work for a wealth management firm in Dublin. A lot of what I do involves pulling information from different systems and making it reliable enough to use. That includes figuring out why two numbers don’t reconcile, automating repetitive work, and trying to extract meaning from a complicated set of numbers.

It’s not just about what the numbers are showing; it’s about what they might actually mean. Financial data does not exist in isolation, and that’s one of the reasons I’ve decided it’s time to start writing about finance, investing, data, and the broader context behind them.

Finance and investing will probably be recurring themes here, but they won’t be the only ones. I also expect to write occasionally about engineering, science, technology, books, and whatever else catches my attention. The common thread is curiosity: trying to understand how things work, how ideas hold up in practice, and what they mean in context.

Writing is a way for me to keep learning and work through questions that I find interesting. There is already a great deal of thoughtful work written by more experienced professionals, and I hope to add the occasional useful note of my own.

Nothing here is financial advice. The relevant posts include the usual disclaimer. This is simply a place for me to explore ideas, share what I’m learning, and see where that curiosity is going to take me.