Vitor Pamplona

Founder, Amethyst

Founder, NosFabrica

President, SciBr Foundation

Vice-chair, Somerville PTAC

Open source, decentralized web, digital health,

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1994 (11yrs old)
- 1^st PC (x286)
- MS-DOS Course
- Win 3.11 Course
1996
- 1^st code: shell script
- Win95 course
- Editor and publisher of Gaspar's street guide
1997
- Mid School
- MUD Server development in C++
- City's all-ages Chess Champion
- mIRC Scripts
1998
- High School Starts
- Delphi Course
- City's Public Library app
- 1^st NGO: FoxHound club
1999
- 1^st Company: IT Tech Services
- Double-entry accounting app
- 1^st Website: FoxHound
2000 (17yrs old)
- High School
- Logging Inventory Software
- 1^st Software Sale
2001
- Starts College
- Delphi/PL/SQL dev at Totall.com SA
- Closes 1^st company
2002
- Totall Workflow
- Totall Bank Integration
- ACM ICPC 119/180
- Learns Java
2003
- Totall Migration to PostgreSQL
- JavaFree: Online Java User Group
- Java dev at Progressiva LTDA
- Learns Cobol
- ACM ICPC 33/116
2004
- RSS Notifier
- Agile/XP User Story app
- Snail Object Query Langauge
- Prevayler Guide
- ACM ICPC 2/38
- Hosts JUG Blumenau event
- Starts Blogging
- Columnist @ iMasters
- Tech Writer @ JavaFree
2005
- Graduates in Comp Science
- Progressiva ERP
- JavaFree CMS
- Mobile 3D Game Engine
- Java Textbook for Senai
- XP Manager wins Great Idea Award by Java Tools Com.
- JavaFree migrates phpBB to JavaBB
- Manages marketing for JavaFree
2006 (23yrs old)
- Starts Masters in Computer Graphics
- Geometric Algebra nD Voronoi
- RubyOnBr User Group
- Wiki engine in Java
- Contributes to Sneer: P2P Computing Platform
- JavaFree Rebranding
- Manages JavaFree Booth at FISL
- Wins $4.7K Microsoft Grant
2007
- Image-Based Data Glove
- 3D Legolizer Rendering Paper
- HL2GLSL Shader Compiler
- Develops InfoBlogs agregator
- Starts Merus: 1st Cloud ERP
- JavaFree hits 35K members and 300K monthly pageviews
2008
- Master's Degree
- Animated Relief Impostors book chapter
- Develops Ajuri: MVC Framework
- Wins CNPq $105K Scholarship for PhD
- 2nd Best Master Thesis by Brazilian Computer Society
2009
- PupilLightReflex @ SIGGRAPH
- Retinal Vessel Wall Estimation App
- Ab-initio light-molecule models
- Joins MIT MediaLab
- Wins CNPq $20K Scholarship
- Learns Optics & Manufacturing
- Comic Selected for PhD Comics
2010
- NETRA @ SIGGRAPH
- NETRA Patent
- PUB-Boston
- Wins $5K Lemelson MIT Award
- Wins $5K MIT Ideas
- Wins $5K MIT Global Challenge
- Wins NASA Health Innovation Award
- MassChallenge Finalist
- MIT 100K Finalist
- Mining Bitcoin
- Organizer for 5 PUB-Boston events
- Iamarino interview
2011
- CATRA @ SIGGRAPH
- CATRA Patent
- Starts EyeNetra
- Twitter client in the console
- Hypertension Detection Paper
- Retinal VR
- Wins $50K Google Award
- Wins $50K MIT Deshpande Award
- JS BTC miner
- TEDxBoston Presenter
- Organizer for 8 PUB-Boston events
2012 (29yrs old)
- PhD Degree
- Tailored Displays @ SIGGRAPH
- Becomes EyeNetra CTO
- EyeNetra raises $1M from Khosla
- Wins $300K Vodafone Award
- Meets the President of Brazil
- Tailored Displays Patent
- Guia Andorinhas: Guide to Boston
- Organizer for 14 PUB-Boston events
- Develops Agitter: events social network
2013
- EyeNetra raises $2M from Khosla
- Virtual Reality Autorefractor
- Atom: AI Server for Clinical Studies
- Fogging Patent
- Controls Patent
- Custom Android Phone by MediaTek
- Wins Silver Thomas Edison Award
- Starts YouTube channel Panorama
- SciBr hosts 1st Summit (350 Brazilians at MIT)
- JavaFree sold to UOL
- Organizer for 12 PUB-Boston events
2014
- EyeNetra raises $4M from VSP
- SciBr Foundation
- Lensometer
- Smartphone Lensmeter Patent
- Coded Aperture Refraction Patent
- VR Subjective Refraction Patent
- BlinkFlow Async Tele-optometry App
- Necuity Visual Acuity App
- Wins $150K NSF SBIR Grant
- Wins Innovator of the year by ABDI
- Organizer for 13 PUB-Boston events
2015
- EyeNetra raises $1.5M from Khosla
- Mobile Phoropter
- Nytro: Coded-Photorefraction
- Blink: Home eye exams in NYC
- Nayantara Vision Services (India)
- Pivots EyeNetra to Medical Device
- EyeNetra Pre-order Campaign
- NETRA App
- Lensometer App
- EyeQue Licenses monocular NETRA
- Mentor at EyeFocus Accelerator
- MIT lecturer
- Organizer for 11 PUB-Boston events
2016
- Marries Lucy
- Becomes co-CEO of EyeNetra
- Ships 1000 pre-ordered devices
- Rebrands EyeNetra
- Rebuilds Sales and Marketing
- NETRA add-on for Presbyopia
- Multifocal mode for the Lensometer
- Insight EHR
- Mobile Clinic Kit
- Hipsters Interview
- Defocus Interview
- SciBr raises $150K Lemann Foundation
- SciBr Fellows Mgmt (7 Grantees)
- Organizer for 12 PUB-Boston events
2017
- Becomes CEO of EyeNetra
- EyeNetra turns cash-flow positive
- SmartStage
- Insight Open API
- Realtime Lensmeter
- Licenses OnSight
- Moves EyeNetra to new Office
- Becomes President of SciBr Foundation
- SciBr Summit (350 Brazilians at BU)
- SciBr raises $50K from Lemann Foundation
- SciBr μGrants Mgmt (7 Grantees)
- Organizer for 11 PUB-Boston events
2018 (35yrs old)
- EyeNetra hits 4000 units shipped
- NETRA Doubles Accuracy
- AI Optometrist
- SMS Patients
- Optical eStore
- Apps in 13 Languages
- SciBr PUBx Grant Mgmt
- SciBr Custom Attendize Server
- Organizer for 11 PUB-Boston events
- Pursuit of Flavor: Restaurant guide
2019
- EyeNetra Client Auto-onboarding
- Voice Assistant for EyeNetra Apps
- EyeNetra New Price model
- EyeNetra New Marketing/Sales
- MIT's Split Learning Protocol
- Crypto token for Vision care (Karrot)
- New SciBr Brand and Webiste
- SciBr redesigns PUBx Brand
- Organizer for 12 PUB-Boston events
- Sworn in Somerville Pedestrian & Trans Advisory Committee
2020
- EyeNetra hits 6000 units shipped
- Becomes CTO of PathCheck
- MIT PrivateKit: GPS Contact Tracer
- Bluetooth Library for React Native
- Boston Childrens Contact Trace PoC
- PathCheck's GAEN App
- PathCheck's GAEN Analytics
- Paper-first Verifiable QRs for COVID UI/API/App
- Guam, Cyprus, Hawaii, Minnesota, Louisiana, Alabama GAEN apps
- Nerdcast, Hipsters Interviews
- 12 PTAC Mobility Review meetings
- Advisor, 123c.vision
2021
- EyeNetra hits 9M refractions
- UAB launches Vaccine Dashboard
- Verifiable COVID Vaccination Journey
- Paper-based VC spec and SDK
- GoodHealthPass Vaccine Credentials Blueprint
- Universal COVID QR Code Verifier Demos & Code
- JSONXT JSON to URI Serializer
- Sign and Verify SDKs for EU DCC, DIVOC, ICAO VDS, SHCs, CRED, GHP BBS+, GHP EDDSA & GHP BBS+CBOR
- PCF Global Trust Registry
- React-Native Universal Verifier
- PCF Vaccine Credential Issuing
- SciBr PUBx Sponsorships
2022
- EyeNetra hits 11M refractions
- WHO Universal Verifier of COVID Credentials
- Joins WHO/G20 Trust Network Workstream
- WHO Trust List Spec and Ref. Implementation
- CQL compiler & clinical reasoning evaluator to Android
- HAPI-FHIR's port to Android
- CQL dev plugin for Intellj IDEs
- WHO Web Universal Verifier Reference Impl
- WHO Trust Registry using DIDs
- Stateless Plan Definition Evaluator
- Elected vice-chair of Somerville PTAC
2023
- Amethyst Nostr Client for Android
- Amethyst reaches 125K installs and 980 stars on GitHub
- Amethyst wins OpenSats grant
- Nostr Wallet Connect NIP
- Private Messages NIP
- Gift Wraps NIP
- Versioned Encryption NIP
- Verifiable Media protocols 1, 2, 3
- Community NIP
- Live Stream NIP
- Zap Splits NIP
- MedicalData NIP
- Key Status NIP
- Notify NIP
- PathCheck's Nostr for Health
- Nostr-powered Webserver Demo
- EyeNetra AR and lensometry apps go open source
- Re-elected vice-chair of PTAC
2024 (41yrs old)
- Wins OpenSats LTS grant
- Wins HRF Bounty on DMs
- Nosfabrica and MedNostr
- Curriculum Vitaes on Nostr
- Nostr-native Spreadsheets
- Quartz Nostr library for Kotlin
- Negentropy-kmp relay sync library
- Native support for Tor on Amethyst
- Edits NIP
- Drafts NIP
- Request to Vanish NIP
- Picture-first Feeds NIP
- Build your own adventure NIP
- Limits NIP
- Trusted Assertions NIP
- Asset Prices NIP
- Interview on The Bitcoin Podcast
- Re-elected vice-chair of PTAC
2025
- Lazer Eyes MedNostr PoC
- Salud Challenge (14 million sats)
- NIP-22 and q-tag migration
- Bulletin Boards NIP
- OpenGraph NIP
- Panelist at MIT Bitcoin Expo
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