He is one of the creators of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, along with Flávio de Souza, which gave origin to a successful movie with the same title.

He directed in 2006 another successful film, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, partly based on his childhood memories.

Hamburger was also one of two creative directors for Rio's contribution to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

[1] He won twice the International Emmy Kids Awards of best series with the works Pedro & Bianca and Young Hearts: Embrace Diversity, in 2014 and 2019 respectively.

He has three sisters: Sônia, a film producer, Vera, an art director and Esther, a university professor.