01 / PEOPLE
Engineering Leadership
Building and developing teams, hiring across seniority levels, strengthening ownership and aligning engineering capacity with business priorities.
Engineering Leadership · Platform Strategy · Fintech
Building technology organizations and platforms for scale.
17 years in software engineering. 9 years in engineering leadership. I build teams, evolve platforms and connect technical strategy to business outcomes.
Berlin, Germany · EU Blue Card
Profile
Technical depth. Organizational impact.
Senior Engineering Manager with 17 years of software engineering experience, including 9 years in engineering leadership across card and local payments in fintech.
I have led distributed teams of up to 20 engineers and built teams from the ground up. My background combines Java, APIs, distributed systems and payment platform architecture with pragmatic delivery, hiring and engineer development.
Engineering leadershipPlatform architecturePayments & fintechJava & Spring BootAPIs & distributed systemsAI-enabled workflows
17Years in software engineering
9Years in engineering leadership
20Engineers led at peak
12 → 3Months: typical payment integration time
Leadership scope
Turning complexity into momentum.
A combination of people leadership, platform thinking and pragmatic technical execution.
02 / PLATFORMS
Platform Strategy
Leading platform evolution, gateway consolidation, backward compatibility and architecture changes that support scale and reliability.
03 / DELIVERY
Integrations & Execution
Improving provider integration processes through early discovery, direct technical collaboration, certification planning and reusable SDK capabilities.
Career
Experience & selected impact.
Engineering leadership across fintech platforms, payment integrations and distributed teams.
Jan 2025 — Present
Senior Engineering Manager · PPRO
Leading Platform and Integrations teams (11 engineers), with responsibility for platform evolution, integrations, architecture and cross-functional execution.
- Reduced typical payment integration time from approximately 12 months to 3 months; some modules can be delivered in 1 month.
- Led the platform work behind gateway consolidation and backward compatibility, enabling the new gateway to reuse existing connectors.
- Supported an integrations portfolio processing nearly 300 million transactions in 2026; broader integrations portfolio handled more than €20 billion annually.
- Delivered or led integrations including Cash App Pay, Pix (BTG), Bizum, NuPay, OXXO Pay and a re-engineered Blik connector.
Apr 2021 — Jan 2025
Engineering Manager · PPRO
Led LATAM processing across Berlin and São Paulo, with teams of up to 20 engineers and a portfolio of 50+ applications. Later led Platform and Integrations teams.
- Launched PPRO’s first Chargeback Disputes API.
- Delivered enterprise integrations for Adobe, Microsoft and Norton; shipped Twint in 3 months and Amazon Pay in 4 weeks.
Nov 2017 — Mar 2021
Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer · allpago (now PPRO)
Delivered card and local payment integrations across Latin America, co-authored the payments SDK and contributed to Spring Boot adoption and microservices modernization.
2009 — 2017
Earlier engineering & teaching roles
Software Engineer and Technical Lead at MRE Soluções and Venturus; Programming Professor at ESAMC.
Selected achievements summarized from my professional experience. Some portfolio and transaction figures refer to different scopes and periods.
Education
Continuous learning.
A multidisciplinary academic foundation spanning engineering, management and technology.
Postgraduate studiesSoftware Architecture, Data Science & Cybersecurity · PUC-PR · 2023–2024
Postgraduate studies · UnicampManagement & Business Strategy · 2012–2014
Mining Complex Data · 2015–2016
Mining Complex Data · 2015–2016
MBA · Project ManagementIBTA · 2012–2013
B.Eng. · Computer EngineeringPUC Campinas · 2006–2010
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) · AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner
Contact
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