The other stage: code
Guitar by night, architecture by day. Twenty-five years of software across enterprise platforms, telecom and banking led to General Bots: an open-source, Rust-based LLM orchestration platform with one mission, to empower any person or organization to become an AI provider.
Once a Microsoft fanboy, now a believer in open sovereignty
Two decades were spent deep in the Microsoft stack: .NET, SharePoint, Azure, Office 365, certifications on the wall. It taught the craft. Then AI arrived and the question changed: who owns the intelligence an organization runs on? General Bots is the answer: open source, self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, and radically cheaper to run.
General Bots
Open-source enterprise LLM orchestrator & AI automation platform · Rust · AGPL-3.0
- 100+crates in the Rust monorepo
- ~398klines of code
- 70%LLM cost cut with semantic caching
- AGPL-3.0license, free to self-host
- Multi-vendor LLM orchestration unifying OpenAI, Anthropic/Claude, Groq and Azure behind a single API.
- BotBASIC, a custom BASIC-derived DSL (.bas to AST compiler) for code-less, convention-over-configuration bot scripting.
- Omnichannel messaging: WhatsApp Business API, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Instagram, Email and Web.
- RAG and semantic retrieval on Qdrant, browser automation, video conferencing and meeting transcription.
- An embedded business suite atop the core: CRM, ERP, HR/payroll, billing, helpdesk, LMS, banking, fraud and KYC.
- Brazil-specific compliance built in: NF-e, eSocial, FGTS and labor rules.
A timeline in systems
From insurance software in the 90s to LLM orchestration today. Roles, not slogans.
Founder & Lead Architect · Pragmatismo
Built and leads General Bots: the Rust monorepo, the multi-vendor orchestration layer, BotBASIC, the omnichannel integrations and the embedded business suite. Architecture from small deployments to large enterprise environments.
Lead Architect · Imago IT Solutions
IT architecture across hybrid solutions, systems integration and legacy modernization. Full-stack delivery on SharePoint, Project and Office 365 over open-source, Microsoft and Oracle stacks. Methodology and PMO based on CMMI and MSF.
Architect · Modulo Security Solutions
Systems integration with proprietary and open-source tools. Architected a custom dashboard engine for a Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) product.
Developer · Claro Telecom (ATL) & Losango
A distributed transaction framework on Microsoft Transaction Server (COM+) and B2B integration over HTTP/XML and CORBA, REST before REST existed. Then low-level C++ data-access APIs for Oracle, DB2 and Sybase, plus UNIX C/C++ microservices and a multithreaded message dispatcher.
Software Seguro and the 90s years
CTO at Software Seguro building insurance and reinsurance software for the Brazilian market. Collaboration suites in C++ and data-aggregation tools across the decade's shops.
Notes from the Pragmatismo blog
Essays on AI agents, orchestration, open source and sovereignty, written as Rodrigo Rodriguez. Newest first.
2026
2025
- LLM Breaches: The Real Danger Isn't Where You ThinkThe real vulnerability is not the model, it is the ecosystem: prompt injection, code interpreters and the chain of failure.
- Pragmatismo 6: AI Sovereignty from BrazilA self-hosted intelligent collaboration platform with enterprise performance and complete autonomy.
- Trade War: Why Open Source Is Brazil's Strategic Way OutOpen source as an instrument of digital sovereignty and economic resistance.
- The Time for Open Source: Why Brazil Must Escape Big TechThe tariff shock exposed the dependency; open source is the strategic way out.
- Carl vs Wilson: Two Teenagers, Two AI PhilosophiesHow the AI stack you choose defines the future of your company.
- Own Your Authenticator StackTake control of authentication instead of renting it from third parties.
- The LLM Boom is Over: Enter the Era of Industrial OrchestrationThe hype cycle is settling; orchestration is what matters now.
- Digital Twins: Architectural Replicas of Business LogicAI-powered digital twins transforming business operations.
- Why Pragmatismo Selected Open SourceRevive, hybrid innovation, community driven: the philosophy.
- SDG & AI: Democratizing TechnologyAligning platforms with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- MCP: The New Universal API for AI OrchestrationWhy the Model Context Protocol is reshaping AI connectivity.
- BASIC for Everyone: The Sovereign Gateway to AIThe most accessible language in history as the ideal foundation for LLM orchestration.
- Cost-Effective Bot Orchestration: The Hybrid StrategyCut LLM operational costs by up to 80% through intelligent routing and local processing.
- Protocol Imperialism: The OAuth2 TrapHow proprietary auth standards marginalize independent email services.
- Building LLM-Powered Enrollment Tools with BASICLLMs need a didactic bridge to act safely in secure environments.
- NO FORMS: Conversational AINo more forms, just natural dialogue.
- Beyond Chatbots: The Architecture of Enterprise OrchestrationFrom reactive chat to proactive, multi-step AI agents.
- RCS vs. WhatsApp: The Architecture of ReachA technical comparison of enterprise messaging protocols.
- The Illusion of Intelligence: Statistics vs. UnderstandingLLMs are high-dimensional autocomplete, not thinking machines.
- The Economic Impact of US Tariffs on AITrade policies accelerating global adoption of open-source AI.
- What is an LLM? Deconstructing the ModelA practical guide to understanding Large Language Models.
- The Big Tech Tax: Analyzing SaaS InefficiencyThe hidden costs of proprietary SaaS and the path to sovereignty.
- Escape from BigTechTCO analysis: open source saves up to 87.5% over five years.
- LLM Myths 2025: A Didactic DeconstructionDebunking prevalent misconceptions in enterprise AI.
Platforms and crafts
AI and platform engineering
Web full stack
Enterprise and cloud
Foundations
Certifications (Microsoft era)
- Managing Projects and Portfolios with Project Server 2013 · 2015
- Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 · 2013
- Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 · 2012
- Implementing Security for Applications with Visual C# .NET · 2005
- Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual C# .NET · 2005
- Analyzing Requirements and Defining .NET Solution Architectures · 2005
Empower every person to become an AI provider
General Bots is open source and self-hosted. Run it, fork it, build on it.