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Cristian Cibils Bernardes

Building Humanity's Historian

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Cristian Cibils Bernardes is the Founder & CEO of Autograph, with a background as a Software Engineer at Google and various roles at Stanford University. He has expertise in project management, process improvement, and strategic partnerships, and holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology. Highlights of his career include founding Autograph and working at Google as a Software Engineer, showcasing a strong background in technology and entrepreneurship. Currently, he leads Autograph, focusing on building his role as a historian for humanity while leveraging his diverse skill set in project management and business development.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & CEO

    2024 - Current

  • Member

    2024 - 2025

South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.

  • Fellow

    2022 - 2024

  • Partner

    2020 - 2022

    Created and oversaw the deployment of a revamped risk-weighed, multi-sector, multi-region portfolio allocation strategy. Led the redesign, optimization, and maintenance of international corporate structures. Served on the investment committee for early stage VC investing in key verticals (AI, 5G, SynBio, Blockchain, Mobility, Sustainability). Developed new Brand Identity for the firm. Spearheaded internal moonshot factory integrating market intelligence derived from macroeconomic trends, labor trends, geo trends, and technology distribution trends.

  • Software Engineer

    2016 - 2020

    Socratic by Google (2018-2020): Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Python, Distributed Systems. Google Shopping (2016-2018): Full Stack Feature Engineering, Data Analysis, UI (JS/HTML/CSS), Java, C++.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Symbolic Systems Advising Fellow

    2015 - 2016

    The Symbolic Systems Program hires around 7 advanced students in the major every year to help run the program in various ways. They are known as Advising Fellows, or AFs, and providing advice to potential and actual majors is probably their most important function. The AFs also help coordinate activities for the major, such as assisting faculty and researchers when they speak in the Symbolic Systems Forum, acting as liasons with the Symbolic Systems Students Association, helping out with student-faculty dinners, field trips, student-alumni events, the Distinguished Speaker, etc. In addition, AFs take care of such things as helping to maintain the Symsys website content, representing AFs within the student association, and representing student perspectives in program policy decisions.

  • Lecturer

    2015 - 2016

    Instructor for CS 106L, the Standard C++ Programming Laboratory at Stanford. Responsibilities include teaching biweekly 50-minute lectures, holding weekly office hours, ensuring grading punctuality, and maintaining the course website. The content of the class includes C++11 features (with extensive focus on templates, iterators, and algorithms), STL containers, RAII, Inheritance, Polymorphism, the Boost Library features, as well as an introduction to the Standard C++ style guide.

  • Resident Assistant

    2014 - 2015

    Branner Hall, Public Service Theme Dorm. Branner is an upperclass residence at Stanford, and it houses 120 residents, the majority of them sophomores and seniors. Around half of the Branner residents pre-assign (as opposed to draw in) to the Service Scholar program. Service Scholars, as part of their residential experience at Branner, explore the Six Pathways of Service and have a yearlong Sustained Service commitment. Responsibilities as an RA include programming planning and execution (from ideation to logistics), counseling for emotional and professional matters, hosting semi-weekly House Meetings, creating and sustaining a lively community, and being in a position of peer leadership as a representative of Stanford Residential Education

  • CS 106B Section Leader

    2015 - 2015

    Teaching weekly 50-minute section, grading programming assignments, holding Interactive Grading sessions, and holding weekly helper hours at the Library Access and Information Resources center. Content taught included but was not limited to: basic C++ syntax and data structures, recursion, runtime evaluation (big-O), pointers and pointer arithmetic, implementation of data structures such as trees and priority queues, graph search algorithms (Dijkstra's, Kruskal's, DBS, BFS).

  • CS 106A Section Leader

    2014 - 2014

    Teaching weekly 50-minute section, grading programming assignments, holding Interactive Grading sessions, and holding weekly helper hours at the Library Access and Information Resources center. Content taught included but was not limited to: basic algorithmic thinking, Java syntax and language functionality, data structures, Object-Oriented software architectures, Interactors and Graphic User Interfaces

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Developer for the Google Video Ads Team. Project required heavy knowledge of Linguistics processing and understanding of the YouTube Ads workflow.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Engineering Practicum Intern

    2014 - 2014

    Developer for Google Ads Similar Audiences. My Intern Project was designing and implementing a metric with which to score the quality of similarity-ranking algorithms between sets of users. The project required extensive use of statistical analysis and Machine Learning. Required mastery of Google technologies such as Protocol Buffers, MapReduce, BigTable, and Borg.

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • Innovation Executive

    2011 - 2012

    Optimizing performance in diverse branches of the company, ranging from the legal department to the more technical services monitoring department.

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