Vitor Pamplona

Proj Lead, Amethyst

Founder, CEO, EyeNetra

CTO, PathCheck Foundation

President, SciBr Foundation

Vice-chair, Somerville PTAC

Decentralized web, digital health, vision science,

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  • 1994 (11yrs old)
    • 1st PC (286)
    • MS-DOS Course
    • Win 3.11 Course
  • 1996
    • 1st code: batch-scripted utilities
    • Win95 Course
    • Publishes City's Street Book
  • 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
    • 1st NGO: FoxHound Club
  • 1999
    • 1st Company: IT Tech Services
    • Double-entry Accounting System
    • 1st Website: FoxHound
  • 2000 (17yrs old)
    • High School
    • Logging Inventory Software
    • 1st Software Sale
  • 2001
    • Starts College
    • Hired as Full-time Delphi/Oracle Developer at Totall
    • Closes 1st Company
  • 2002
    • Totall Workflow
    • Totall Payments Integration
    • ACM ICPC 119/180
    • Learns Java
  • 2003
    • Totall Migration to PostgreSQL
    • JavaFree: Online Java User Group
    • Hired as Java Developer at Progressiva
    • Learns Cobol
    • ACM ICPC 33/116
  • 2004
    • RSS Notifier
    • Agile/XP User Stories Manager
    • Snail OQL
    • Prevayler Guide
    • ACM ICPC 2/38
    • Hosts JUG Blumenau event
    • Starts JRoller Blog
    • Columnist @ iMasters
    • Tech Writer @ JavaFree
  • 2005
    • BSc. CS
    • Progressiva ERP
    • JavaFree CMS
    • J2ME 3D Game Engine
    • Java Textbook for Senai
    • XP Manager wins Great Idea Award by Java Tools Com.
    • JavaFree migrates phpBB to JavaBB
    • Manages Full Page Ads for JavaFree
  • 2006 (23yrs old)
    • Starts Masters in Computer Graphics
    • Geometric Algebra nD Voronoi
    • RubyOnBr User Group
    • Priki Wiki Engine
    • 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 Conversion Compiler
    • Custom Gentoo-based Linux Distro
    • 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
    • 2nd Blog on Priki
    • WeBlessDoc Documentation app
    • Develops Ajuri: MVC Framework
    • Wins CNPq $105K Scholarship for PhD
    • 2nd Best Master Thesis by Brazilian Computer Society
  • 2009
  • 2010
    • NETRA @ SIGGRAPH
    • NETRA Patent
    • PUB-Boston
    • Builds and ships 20 Monocular NETRAs
    • 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
  • 2012 (29yrs old)
  • 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
    • First Bitcoin Investment
  • 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
    • Chazma Sync Telerefraction app
    • Wins $150K NSF SBIR Grant
    • Wins Innovator of the year by ABDI
    • Organizer for 13 PUB-Boston events
  • 2015
  • 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
    • Insight Patient Billing
    • 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
    • OEM Apps
    • Express Prescriptions
    • 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
    • Event Manager
    • NETRA Double Accuracy Mode
    • AI Prescriptions
    • SMS Patient Link
    • Optical eStore
    • Apps in 13 Languages
    • Licenses EnVision
    • SciBr PUBx Grant Mgmt
    • SciBr Custom Attendize Server
    • Organizer for 11 PUB-Boston events
    • Pursuit of Flavor: Restaurant guide
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • And forward