About
The engineer and the builder
FICARIS DIGITAL exists because of a specific frustration: watching brilliant project teams drown in repetitive work that everyone knew was automatable — and watching generic tech consultancies fail to automate it because they didn’t understand the work.
Fixing that takes two people: one who’s lived the work and dove into AI early, and one who can build the systems.
Founder & AI Expert
Filippe Rimis
25 years inside major oil & gas projects across South America, Asia Pacific, and Australia — including Wheatstone and Prelude FLNG, the largest floating facility ever built. Office, site, and offshore. Structural engineer, construction and site engineer, project engineering manager.
Filippe knows exactly which parts of project execution are judgement — and which parts are repetition wearing a hard hat. That line is where FICARIS Digital operates: everything below it gets an agent; everything above it stays human.
An early and hands-on adopter of generative AI, he designs every FICARIS system around a rule learned the hard way on real projects: a tool nobody trusts is a tool nobody uses. Human oversight isn’t a disclaimer here — it’s the architecture.
Co-founder & Technical Lead
Renan Torres
Civil engineer, Master’s in Biosystems Engineering — and for the last six-plus years, a DevOps engineer building and operating systems inside major enterprises. Renan is the reason FICARIS deployments are production ready, not demos: secure, monitored, documented, and maintainable by your team or ours.
Having crossed from engineering to tech himself, he speaks both languages fluently — which means nothing gets lost between the workflow Filippe designs and the system your people actually use.
Why the pairing works
Domain expertise without engineering builds slideware. Engineering without domain expertise builds tools nobody adopts. FICARIS is the overlap — and the overlap is why our assess → build → run cycle takes weeks, not quarters.