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Simon Bernbeck

Simon Bernbeck

Software engineer and master’s student in Rio de Janeiro

I’m Simon. I work at the meeting point of software, artificial intelligence, and privacy.

I studied International Project Engineering in Germany and now study Informatics at PUC-Rio in Rio de Janeiro. At the AISE Laboratory, I research how software tools and AI can help developers deal with privacy in a more practical way. This blog is where I share the projects, research notes, and lessons that come from that work—as well as the places and experiences shaping life around it.

What I write about
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Software, AI, and privacy: practical projects and research about building systems that are useful, understandable, and careful with people’s data. Learning in public: ideas from my master’s degree, new tools, and things I had to understand the hard way. Travel and perspective: life in Brazil, stories from the road, and the experiences that keep changing how I see work and the world.

This is not a finished profile. It is a record of the work, places, and questions that are shaping me.


“As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.”

— C.P. Cavafy, Ithaka

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