Transition and Gratitude: Closing One Chapter, Starting Another .

Note from 2026. Originally published as a LinkedIn Article on July 31, 2023, at the closing of my three years at Trinus Co and before the move to the United States. Reproduced here unmodified for the narrative arc. The “next chapter in the North American market” mentioned below is what now appears across /experience and /recognition — AECOM (Jan 2024 – Mar 2026) and now Linesight as Senior Cost Manager (Apr 2026 – present).

To evolve and continue growing, we often need to let go of some projects, place ourselves in uncomfortable situations, and make room for the new. Today marks the end of a significant chapter in my career at Trinus Co and in Brazil. With pride and gratitude, I am saying goodbye after more than three years of enriching experiences, ready to embark on a new and exciting journey. I close a cycle of professional development and value delivery in Brazil, opening space for a new cycle in the North American market.

During my time at Trinus, I had the privilege of contributing to the company’s transformation. When I joined, Trinus was a vibrant startup, with processes still in formation and an environment full of experimentation. However, it always maintained a clear mission and an obsession with delivering the best. Today, I bid farewell to a mature and structured corporation, composed of over 600 talented employees, maintaining the obsession for excellence, recognizing our imperfections and tirelessly improving our products and services.

Reflecting on my journey, I see how much I was also transformed. When I joined the project in 2020, at the height of the covid crisis pandemic, I carried with me the mindset of traditional projects and markets. However, in an environment of innovation and exponential growth, I learned to understand that everything has its time and right way to be done. This experience transformed me as a person, improved my professional skills, and gave me the opportunity to work with incredible people.

I improved myself as a person, manager, colleague, and leader, enriching my knowledge in financial management, projects and portfolios related to engineering, accounting, data manipulation and information through SQL, structuring and presenting corporate and operational results and reports in PowerBI & databricks dashboards, process structuring, audits, analyses, and standardizations related to governance in systems/ERP. I always sought to improve the customer/user experience in our ecosystem and regional entrepreneurs, providing the best journey and transparency to all stakeholders, promoting greater unity and collaboration among our teams.

I say goodbye with a sense of accomplishment, having witnessed our collective purpose and the founders’ vision of transforming the Company into a platform ready to revolutionize the Brazilian housing market with innovative financial and real estate solutions. I challenge those who do not yet know Trinus, whether as a customer, entrepreneur, partner, or employee, to try it and when necessary, give improvement feedback. The team is ready to receive this feedback and deliver the best value and experience to everyone.

My decision comes after a year in the United States, along with the completion of my wife’s (Sarah Rodovalho) two master’s degrees in Construction Management and Sustainable Design from Thomas Jefferson University. I feel energized and ready to embrace the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. I am excited to improve my English skills and take on this new language as part of the reinvention of my career and, in the future, to embark on an entrepreneurial journey.

In this new phase, I am guided by the mantra of Jorge Paulo Lemann: “Study, surround yourself with good people, take risks. The world needs people who want to make things happen.”

I am deeply grateful to everyone at Trinus with whom I had the honor of collaborating. Leaders, coworkers, sponsors, clients, and partners, all of you have left marks on my journey. I hope to have made a similar impact in your lives and wish you all much success in your individual journeys. I am eager to see what the future holds for this incredible project.

I would also like to thank the companies that played a crucial role in my professional and personal development in Brazil. I spent more than nine years with the EMISA Incorporadora family (the largest construction and real estate company in the interior of Goiás, with 45 years of respect and ethics for everyone and delivering the best and on time to customers) — two and a half years of engineering internship and being mentored by the mindset of the first and second generation of owners, and after having worked in the national market had the opportunity to return for another 7 years, first as a construction manager and then had the honor of having been manager of a portfolio of projects.

I am also very grateful to the Direcional Engenharia family, one of the largest housing construction and development companies in Brazil — which taught me a lot about corporate posture, processes, reporting and managing a supply portfolio in multiple simultaneous large-scale housing construction projects. Also grateful to FR Incorporadora, in my first role as a recent engineering graduate, I was able to improve my skills and competencies on the UT-0667 — Barro Alto Nickel Mine Project in Brazil, a unique opportunity on a construction site with more than ten thousand employees, with a cost of more than 1.9 billion dollars, where I learned a lot about project management, meeting premises and relationship with the client (Anglo American) and a fantastic team of the Consortium Manager (Consortium SLM — SNC-Lavalin and Minerconsult Engenharia Ltda.).

Each of these experiences was a crucial step in my professional evolution, and I am looking forward to applying this knowledge and learning from my mistakes and successes in the North American market. I look back at these experiences with pride and gratitude.

I invite those who have not yet connected with me on LinkedIn to follow me. I look forward to sharing my journey.

Thank you all! Until next time, remember that you can always count on me!

With gratitude, Vitor Maia Rodovalho