Felipe Tomé is a Brazilian Research Software Engineer passionate about high-performance computing (HPC), parallel computing, and scalable algorithms. At MIT, he contributed to Dagger.jl and DLA.jl, optimizing MPI, GPU acceleration, and numerical linear algebra. His research, published at IEEE HPEC and SIAM CSE, earned him Best Short Paper at HPEC 2024. As a Latino in HPC, he is committed to advancing open-source and exascale computing within his community and in the global south.