COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE
IN TECH
Debug your career
Redesign your work
Protect your nervous system_
Who this is for:
→ Tech professionals whose cognitive performance is limited by their environment, not their abilities.
→ High-achieving engineers and leaders who look successful on paper but feel increasingly disconnected from their work.
→ Neurodivergent tech talent navigating complex environments that weren't designed for their operating system.
→ Technical experts who've optimized everything except the relationship between their nervous system and their career.
You've optimized your skills, your systems, and your workflows.
But something still feels off - despite the promotions, the accomplishments, and the external validation.
I engineer sustainable cognitive performance
for tech professionals who want
their internal experience
to match their external success.
The Second Spine
An engineered system for optimizing how your brain performs in high-stakes technical environments.
I've mapped the architecture of sustainable cognitive excellence in tech.
From nervous system regulation protocols to environment debugging frameworks.
This growing knowledge base includes:
→ Performance Engineering Models that identify hidden system constraints
→ Cognitive State Mapping Tools to predict and prevent performance drops
→ Technical Career Optimization Frameworks for designing your ideal career interface
→ Decision-Making Protocols that protect your cognitive resources
Get these tools and frameworks delivered straight to your inbox as I build them in real-time.
Run your
Career Scan
A 80-minute Career Debugging Intensive powered by the OS.
You’ll walk away with a map of how your work interfaces with your nervous system and how this affects your performance.
Get the clarity you need to accelerate.
What you get:
80-minute 1-on-1 Career Debugging Session (remote).
Personalized OS Map: drift factors, load debt, congruence friction.
7 days async support post-session.
Price: $250 USD
Act on your
Career Sprint
Get support to navigate.
This pack includes everything from the Career Scan — and extends it with hands-on support to help you act on what you uncover.
You get:
One 80-minute Career Debugging Intensive (Career Scan)
Personalized OS Map: drift factors, load debt, congruence friction.
Two 55-minute follow-up sessions to support implementation
7 days async support post-session.
Price: $600 USD
Who is
Luciana Santos?
Hey, I’m Luciana.
I'm a software engineering leader with 17 years in tech and a cognitive performance strategist specialized in optimizing how tech professionals' brains function in high-stakes environments.
For 7 years, I led engineering teams through aggressive deadlines and constant pivots at high-pressure organizations.
Each success came with a cognitive cost I couldn't see until it was too late.
What began as survival became expertise:
I learned to engineer the interface between my nervous system and my technical work, discovering patterns and protocols that transformed my performance without sacrificing well-being.
Today, I help high-performing tech professionals achieve sustainable cognitive excellence by:
→ Mapping the invisible architecture between their nervous system and technical performance
→ Debugging the system-level issues causing disconnect between external success and internal experience
→ Engineering personalized protocols for maintaining cognitive performance in high-pressure environments
This isn't productivity advice.
It's cognitive performance engineering for your most valuable technical asset: your brain.
Debug your career. Redesign your work.
Protect your nervous system_
I dive deep into neuroscience, career design, and role positioning to give you a unique, actionable take on how to grow.