Caio Villela is an electrical engineer, graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and was a software engineer in Silicon Valley, California, for 40 years. 

He worked for companies such as Google, Cisco Systems, and Seagate, always seeking to understand the societal consequences and impacts of technology. 

To this end, he consistently sought a balanced reading diet on topics such as technology, philosophy, politics, and economics, complemented by science fiction to gain insights into possible futures.