Ronaldo Neves

Co-Founder & CTO

Stealth Startup

Mar 2026 - Current (6 months)

Building something new on a new market

Vice President of Engineering

RecargaPay

Feb 2023 - Feb 2026 (3 years 1 month)

- Manage four major business units (Payments -- who had 70% of company's revenue, Loans, AntiFraud and Onboarding) with a direct report and team leadership of eight over (heads, engineering managers and principals) the Brazilian and Argentinian teams with ~130 software engineers, responsible for aligning company strategy with engineering strategy and technical decisions regarding software architecture and system design always aiming business goals and delivering key results. Clear communication thru OKRs and top-down communication. - Running a fintech TPV of USD5.5MM that doubles every year adding new products to the company’s portfolio. Seeking new value streams and experimenting thru short feedback loops. - Helped the teams to focus and p

Director of Engineering | Creditas Benefits | Insurance | Financial Plataforms

Creditas

May 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 10 months)

- Lead a team of eight over two business units (Payments--Credit Card, Digital Banking and Meal voucher-), Insurance and 2 financial platforms(running a TPV of USD 1,5B/month with 150 software engineers. - Responsible for aligning overall company strategy with engineering strategy and making technical decisions regarding software architecture by creating actions to mitigate NPS issues. - Partnered with product and design in order to craft best suited solutions relying heavily on software engineering. - Restructured team to improve efficiency and product delivery throughout development of new development workflows based on individual team strengths, resulting in over 2,000% percent growth. - Head of continuous improvement and delivery chap

Senior Engineering Manager

SumUp

May 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 1 month)

- Created a global tribe of 40 individuals in Berlin and Brazil to assist with customer support solutions and participated on a team that defined metrics and product successes. - Led OKR definitions, strategy and value proposition in collaboration with the head of Product to become the first bank in Brazil to deliver an instant and 24/7 payments and money transfer solution, currently representing $12M in market share. - Built a team from the ground up, delivering end-to-end products three months earlier than past teams and rolled out new features to 100% of their customers. - Implemented a continuous improvement and workflow efficiencies chapter committee and saw a 100% increase in engineering performance based on the new processes and metr

Senior Engineering Manager

Neon

Feb 2018 - May 2019 (1 year 4 months)

- Selected for this role to scale the engineering department and oversee a team of 40 direct reports, growing the engineering team from 15 to 100 people and creating lean processes, rolling out new procedures and developing a culture that kept the business moving quickly. Reported directly to CTO and occasionally acted as interim CTO. - Implemented DevOps culture and rolled out best development practices including TDD, BDD and evolved the Monolith Software to a Microservices Architecture bringing resilience and high availability. - Led a team in developing and delivering a new product that reached over 1MM active users (increased from 62K users of the previous product) and was driven by the launch of a credit card product. Led a team in dev

Engineering Manager

Sciensa

Dec 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 2 months)

- Managed the performance and delivery of engineers with a focus on continuous improvement and understanding customers' needs to tailor custom products while overseeing 20 direct reports and reporting directly to the CTO. - Tasked with delivering a new AI-based system for insurance sales for the largest insurance company in Brazil and increased revenue by 20% achieving almost $20MM in additional sales using predictive algorithms. - Educated company on proper use of product strategy and Agile Methods specially Kanban and Scrum. - Drove all KPIs for project using management tools including Management 3.0 and Google Re:work.

Engineering Manager

Cognizant

Nov 2015 - Dec 2016 (1 year 2 months)

- Responsible for planning and migrating operations in moving all engineering functions from Asia to South America while managing ten global tech teams, ten direct reports and 60 individuals. Defined new processes, workflows, engineering practices and KPIs to best achieve results for the client (Kimberley Clark). - Relocated entire operation and was responsible for $10MM in billable hours, successfully completing the migration in four months, two months ahead of schedule. - Managed fully distributed teams in multiple time zones and continents. - Managed multiple features to different products (specially marketing) aligning several stakeholders and businesses owners.

Líder Técnico e Arquiteto de Software

SETIS Automacao e Sistemas

Dec 2012 - Nov 2015 (3 years)

Architecture, development and support of the electronic payment software for the top credit card acquires in Brazil (Rede, Cielo, Elavon, RV, Libercard, Fillip, Conductor) and other small ones. Implementation of the shared EMV processing library. Use of ISO8583 to exchange financial messages. Responsible for Agile, Scrum and Test-Driven Design implementation. Coaching the team focusing on how to improve the developed code, clean coding, object- oriented programming, TDD, design patterns and integration patterns. Delivery Management of the developer’s artifacts. Implementation of NoSQL Databases such as Cassandra and NoSQL. Following the best practices of the TOGAF Framework. Successfully implemented Scrum Framework towards development teams

Senior Systems Analist

Diebold Procomp

Jun 2007 - Dec 2012 (5 years 7 months)

I was responsible for both architecture and implementation aspects of Diebold ́s product XMS - Extended Managed Services. This product was an ATM monitoring tool that provides an availability management solution that reduces the downtime of the self-service network. This product monitors the Bank of America ATM network and other banks around the world. XMS was developed following the best practices of Object-Oriented Programming. My role is to analyze, specify, develop, deliver and evolve the business requirements requested by our clients aggregating value to the product. I also manage the integration of activities that has been developed by multi-country teams based in US and India and conduct impact analysis to modify the system in accord

Senior System Analyst

BMFBovespa

May 2006 - Jul 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Worked in the Asset Clearing Division, I was part of the team that had successfully downsized the Asset Clearing Software from COBOL/DB2 to Microsoft Architecture (N Layered). My role was to understand and analyze the system requirements of the software, develop functional specifications using UML, and develop the product using Visual Studio .Net framework and tools.

Senior System Analyst

InfoSERVER

Jun 2004 - May 2006 (2 years)

Developed software for the largest Brazilian banks and ABB Group. My role was to analyze, understand and develop Client Server Applications, WEB Applications, Business Inteligence Analysis, Sharepoint portals. All development was made using Microsoft .Net as primary technology. I also developed the integration portal with SAP for Bradesco Bank.

Senior System Analyst

BMFBovespa

Mar 2003 - Jun 2004 (1 year 4 months)

I worked for the Derivatives Clearing Division. My role was to analyze and develop the new system requirements of the integration system with the Brazilian Reserve Bank. I conducted impact analysis to modify the system in accordance with the Reserve Bank regulatory acts and guidelines. Project Management with IT Managers. Reviewed and changed the company business processes towards ISO 9000 certification and defined best practices for the development process.

System Analyst

DuPont

May 2001 - Mar 2003 (1 year 11 months)

I was responsible for the Intranet and e-Commerce Systems of Dupont South America (Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador). Management and development of all projects for those countries. I also analyzed all IT business proposals for Dupont ́s Divisions. I was part of the SAP Global Integration project that had unified all SAP databases around the world. I went several times to North Carolina, Los Angeles and New York to manage the teams and to follow up deployment and align with stakeholders.

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System Analyst

Qualityfour Technologies

Apr 2000 - Apr 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Software Development for Itau Bank, Bank Boston, and Bank Unibanco. Downsized old management platform (Natural, COBOL, DB2) using Microsoft Architecture for Martins Atacadista Group. Business Proposals and Project Management.

Program Analyst

Compuware

May 1999 - Apr 2000 (1 year)

I worked as a consultant for Bradesco Bank (one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil), developing applications for branch management and banking operations processes such as: Account Opening, Bills Payment, Investments and Security.

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Program Analyst

Microtec Sistemas

Jun 1998 - May 1999 (1 year)

Developed the company ERP and product manufacturing systems using ASP/SQL Server. Performing Database Tunings and model improvements.

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Programmer

Fábrica Um Informática

Nov 1997 - May 1998 (7 months)

Developed the company ERP modules such as: Payment Processing, Product Management, Finance, HR, Taxes, Order Management and Legal Department. Occasional development to Eletronic Data System Consulting (EDS Brazil).

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