Engineer Founder Author
Adriano Marques
I’ve been writing software for a living since 2003. I have a master’s in computer science from Georgia Tech. Back in college in Brazil, I wrote code that ended up on screen in The Bourne Ultimatum. Today I’m the co-founder and CEO of Savings Club.
For over twenty years I’ve taken hard problems apart and rebuilt them as technology anyone can use.
01 Now
Savings Club
Co-founder and CEO
It’s a club where members fund each other’s cars.
The club’s money is held in trust for its members at U.S. Bank, with Jackson Hole Trust as trustee. Savings Club runs the club.
You pay into the club every month.
Once a month, the club’s ranking decides which members are next to use the fund. When a voucher buys a vehicle, the trust pays the licensed dealer directly.
When you use your voucher, it becomes a loan, and Savings Club is the lender. You repay it. One flat fee, set in your contract. Nothing compounds on your balance.
02 Open source
Zenmap
In 2005 I was in college in Goiás, Brazil, when Google picked me for its first Summer of Code.
My project was Umit, a new graphical interface for the network scanner Nmap. Umit grew into Zenmap, the official Nmap GUI, and today it ships in every major Linux distribution. You can even spot it in The Bourne Ultimatum, behind several terminal windows.
I came back as a student in 2006 and mentored from 2007 to 2012. In 2007 one of my students, João Paulo de Souza Medeiros, built RadialNet to draw network maps for Umit. Zenmap adapted it for its topology view. The drawing here imitates that view.
03 Record
Patents, research, education
I have two US patents, both granted in 2025 and both in my own name. Three more applications are pending, covering the coordination system behind Savings Club. The granted two let software adapt to each request by checking it against rules in its configuration. That way nobody has to reconfigure it by hand. The first one covers DNS, the system that turns a name like a.dria.no into an address. The second takes the method beyond DNS.
Patents
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US 12,192,168 B1
Unified programmable dynamic context-aware configuration for domain name service
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US 12,375,351 B2
Unified programmable dynamic context-aware configuration
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WO 2025/117785 A1
Unified programmable dynamic context-aware configuration
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PCT/US2026/023138
Coordination system for merit-based resource allocation
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PCT/US2026/023140
Retention of participant computing devices in a coordination system
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PCT/US2026/023134
Transfer of resource allocations in a coordination system
Research
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Nature Computational Science
Improving lab-of-origin prediction of genetically engineered plasmids via deep metric learning
We used deep learning to work out which lab engineered a piece of DNA.
Education
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MS, Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
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BS, Information Systems
Universidade Estadual de Goiás, the State University of Goiás, Brazil
Talks and teaching
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Speaker
World Creativity Forum
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Speaker
CEO Conference
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Speaker
Free Software International Forum (FISL), Brazil
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Coach
CREATE-X, Georgia Tech
04 Writing
The Car-Buying Revolution
Published in June 2023
I wrote this book to help you plan your next car. It walks you through buying and financing a car the right way in America. You’ll learn how to choose new or used, read every fee on a contract, size up a trade-in and line up financing before you shop.
It gives you what I learned from dealers, bankers, regulators and attorneys while building Savings Club. I’ve owned cars in Brazil, Belgium and the United States, and the book draws on all three.
05 Contact
Contact
Send me a message on X.
- X @a_dria_no
- LinkedIn in/amarques6
- Instagram @real_a_dria_no
- YouTube @a_dria_no
- GitHub adrianomarques
- Google Developer u/adrianomarques
For press and introductions
Adriano Marques is an engineer and the co-founder and CEO of Savings Club, where members fund each other’s cars. He created Umit, the open source project that became Zenmap, the official graphical interface for Nmap. He is the inventor on two US patents. He co-authored a paper in Nature Computational Science. He earned his MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He wrote The Car-Buying Revolution.
