BERLIN · JUNE, MMXXVI OPEN TO CONVERSATIONS PRODUCT · ENGINEERING · LEADERSHIP

Curious about how
things work,
and how they break.

A product & engineering lead with seven years building financial, crypto, and platform products — from trading platforms to digital wallets, insurance protocols, super-apps, and payment rails. Currently co-founder & product lead at Kmino.

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I.An introduction

I've been curious about how things work for as long as I can remember — taking things apart, wanting to build them back up. That led me through electronics engineering, then data analytics, backend engineering, and — for the last seven years — product.

I've worked on trading platforms, digital wallets, insurance protocols, super-apps, payment integrations, and AI assistants. From zero-to-one launches to scaling products from 0 to 240k+ users, across mobile and web, with teams spread across America, Europe, and Asia.

A bit of everything: hiring, system design, stakeholder management, sprint processes, CI/CD, platform migrations — and the occasional macOS native app when I need a break from meetings.

In 2025 I co-founded Kmino, a software agency for Web3 companies and fintech startups. Before that, years as a product and engineering lead, shipping reliably when everything around me was moving fast.

Brazilian-born, Italian citizen. I've lived and travelled across the world and am now based in Berlin — open to remote and hybrid roles here.

7yrs
Product & Eng
20+
Folks Led
UTC−8→+11
Timezones Worked
2×
Ankles Sprained · Skating
Also: snowboards blue runs only, dives to 12m max, and still hasn't hit lv. 100 in Path of Exile.
II.A résumé, in brief
2025 —
Kmino
Co-founder & Product Lead
Berlin, DE · Remote +

Co-founded a software agency focused on Web3 companies and fintech startups. Product definition, technical direction, hiring, delivery. Full-stack founder ownership: finance, sales, marketing, and internal tooling.

  • Led Syscoin's ecosystem products' migration: rearchitected the entire product line onto a new L2 (zkSys), reducing operational risk
  • Defined pricing & engagement models (Product Build, Senior Pod, Advisory Sprints) connecting product direction to business value
  • Shipped AI-powered features into production: LLM-based capabilities, skills, agent automation
  • Launched in-house products: Flowbar (macOS-native task tracker) and Suilana (tx-hash explainer for Solana/Sui)
platformaihiringweb3greenfieldmacos
2024—26
Lunos
Engineering & Product Lead · via Pollum → Kmino
Dubai, UAE · Remote +

On-chain coverage platform (former UNO Re). Appointed lead after SysLabs acquired a majority stake. Inherited isolated workflows, left a scalable platform and a pivot in progress.

  • Re-organized the team post-acquisition; introduced structured 1:1s, performance reviews, career development paths
  • Unified isolated workflows into a single scalable platform: onboarding, verification, claims, compliance
  • $21M covered in on-chain policies · $700k paid in claims
  • Led a product pivot toward KYC-native blockchain, worked directly with legal & compliance
platformrearchitecturefintechinsurancecomplianceleadership
2022–25
Pollum
Technical Product Manager
Florianópolis, BR · Remote +

Led 20+ person cross-functional teams across multiple concurrent crypto & fintech products. Owned hiring, mentoring, roadmaps, and delivery, while also owning CI/CD hygiene with DevOps.

  • SuperDapp · 0 → 240k sign-ups. Decentralized super-app with E2E messaging, multi-chain wallet, and AIDA, an LLM assistant shipped to production
  • AI Agent SDK (superdapp-js) deployed across 700+ communities, developer API for agents
  • Pali Wallet · 22.2k downloads, 11k+ WAU. First UTXO+EVM browser wallet; led the MV2→MV3 compliance rewrite under a hard Chrome deadline
  • Owned payment rail integrations (Coinify, Changelly) from research to delivery, including SWIFT, credit/debit, APMs for on-ramps
  • Launched Pali Mobile from scratch, spun up a new mobile team, shipped greenfield
multi-productmobileaipayments20+ teamcompliance
2022–23
Luxy
Technical Lead · via Pollum (acq. SysLabs)
Dubai, UAE · Remote +

Digital asset marketplace on ERC-721/1155. Reviewed the AWS microservices, restructured the architecture and the engineering process. Drove the technical improvements behind the company's acquisition.

  • −45% infra cost, −180× load times: restructured Lambda, EC2, MongoDB, websocket services
  • Launched a novel on-chain royalty engine, plus payment gateways and launchpad tooling
  • Restructured sprint cycles; cut meeting overhead ~40% and improved delivery predictability
  • Built monitoring dashboards (transaction volume, platform health, performance) and reliability improvements
awsmicroservicesmarketplaceacquisitionmonitoring
2019–22
Brick Abode
Engineering & Product Manager
Virginia, USA · Remote +

Product & engineering management across crypto trading, enterprise network automation, communication platforms, and internal financial tooling.

  • Covario: owned research, UX, MVP delivery for a financial data platform aggregating exchange APIs
  • Oversaw a comms platform across 10+ teams in 7 countries — Android, iOS, Web, Desktop, backend, QA, DevOps
  • Led 5–6 engineers on WeWork's network automation team, focusing on network management across regions (EMEA, LATAM, US/Canada)
  • Redesigned the engineering hiring process: ~3.5 months → 3 weeks. Wrote the internal management handbook; trained new managers
  • Standardized internal payment tooling: unblocked the finance team across every contract
cross-teamfinancial-infrahiringdocumentationenterprise
2019
Brick Abode
Backend Software Engineer
Virginia, USA · Remote +

Short engineering stint before transitioning into management at the same company.

  • Built a custom order matching engine for a crypto exchange. F#, Python, PostgreSQL
  • Limit + market orders via an OMS integration; end-to-end testing of the full trading flow
  • Configured CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and Docker-based dev environments
engineeringtradingf#postgressystem-design
2018–19
RD Station
Data Analyst
Florianópolis, BR · On-site +

One of the fastest-growing SaaS platforms in Latin America. Built the reporting layer that drove operational decisions on the corporate education team.

  • Automated dashboards & reporting infrastructure for growth/operational KPIs
  • Data pipelines in Python, Power BI, Google Data Studio
  • Delivered insights that drove data-informed operational decisions
dataanalyticssaaspythonsql
— and the tools of the trade

Product & leadership

Product strategy Platform roadmaps 0→1 & greenfield Continuous discovery Stakeholder alignment Hiring & onboarding Performance reviews Sprint cadence Commercial & pricing

Financial & crypto

Payment rails KYC / AML Exchange integrations Smart contracts UTXO + EVM Settlement & reconciliation Tokenized assets Regulatory compliance

Technical

Python · F# · PostgreSQL AWS (Lambda, EC2) MongoDB System design API design CI/CD macOS native

Tools

Jira · ClickUp Notion · Confluence Figma Power BI · Data Studio Google Analytics SQL

Also: a published academic author.

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Directed Test Generation for Shared Memory Verification — using RL to validate hardware tests before it was a career buzzword.

DATE 2020 · Grenoble, FR IEEE Xplore ↗
III.Selected work
SuperDapp
№ 01 SUPERAPP · AI · WEB3 · 2023–25

SuperDapp — a decentralized super-app

What started as a rebrand of an encrypted communication app grew into a multi-platform super-app with an AI assistant, community monetization tools, and an agent SDK. No clear roadmap, too many stakeholders, tight time to market; and 240k sign-ups in the opening months.

240k+
sign-ups
700+
communities
AIDA
AI assistant shipped
productaimobileweb3paymentsleadership
Lunos coverage platform
№ 02 INSURANCE · WEB3 · 2024–25

Lunos — on-chain coverage platform

Appointed engineering and product lead after SysLabs acquired a majority stake. Brought in a new team, managed the transition from the old one, unified a fragmented platform that covered $21M in assets before leading a full product pivot toward KYC-native blockchain infrastructure.

$21M
covered
$700k
claims paid
pivot
KYC-native blockchain
fintechinsurancecomplianceleadershippivot
Pali Wallet
№ 03 WALLET · MULTI-CHAIN · 2022–25

Pali Wallet — the first UTXO + EVM browser wallet

Took over a struggling open-source wallet with a shaky v2 launch, a mountain of bugs, and a hard Chrome compliance deadline bearing down. Stabilized the product, hired the right people, and shipped the MV3 migration without taking the extension offline.

22.2k
downloads
11k+
weekly actives
V2→V3
migrated
walletbrowser-extopen-sourcecompliancegreenfield
Luxy NFT marketplace
№ 04 MARKETPLACE · INFRA · 2022–23

Luxy — a digital asset marketplace

Brought in as technical and product lead to a struggling NFT marketplace. Restructured the team, slashed cloud costs by 45%, reduced endpoint response times by up to 180×, shipped the features that drove traction, and left when SysLabs acquired the company.

−45%
infra cost
180×
faster endpoints
SysLabs
acquired
awsmicroservicesacquisitionmarketplacenftleadership
Covario trading terminal
№ 05 TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE · 2019–22

Covario — a unified layer over exchanges

Three distinct chapters at Covario: as a backend engineer building the order matching engine, as PM shipping a Bloomberg-style trading terminal for HFT traders, and later connecting real-time feeds from Binance, Kraken, Gemini, and others into a single low-latency API.

3
iterations
4+
exchanges integrated
0→1
MVP delivered
tradingapiproductengineeringleadership
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