Celia Wanderley

Vice President, AI Engineering

Blend

Dec 2025 - Current (10 months)

As a Vice President in the Americas Engineering team, Celia is responsible for co-leadership of the AI Engineering Function and the Agentic Workflows Services Offering. Celia works with clients to build Agentic AI solutions to drive impactful business workflow transformation.

Chief Innovation Officer and Head of AI

Bits In Glass

Feb 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 11 months)

As Chief Innovation Officer and Head of AI, Celia was responsible for launching and leading the Data & AI Practice at Bits in Glass. Some of the key accomplishments:
- Led the Databricks and AWS alliances
- Established and led the Data & AI practice
- Led AI transformation projects for clients in Insurance, Financial Services and Energy; helping them adopt AI seamlessly as a key enabler of their business process automation efforts
- Contributed to AI IP development that resulted in award wins by Appian (AI Innovation in Insurance) and Boomi (Agentic AI Hackathon)
- Spoke at multiple events and conferences internationally and led the AI thought leadership for BiG
- Advised on M&A in the area of Data & AI

Chief Technology Officer and Head of Invent

AltaML

Feb 2020 - Feb 2024 (4 years 1 month)

Executive lead for the development of applied AI solutions and products. As Chief Technology Officer and Head of the Invent (Professional Services) business, provide direction in the creation of software solutions powered by AI/ML. Provide leadership to the following portfolios: Customer Solutions, Data Science, Software Development and Product Development. Since joining AltaML to build its Services business, Celia was accountable for growth of revenue and maturing of practices and capabilities that elevated AltaML into the leading Applied AI solutions studio in Canada, having served over 100 clients and built over 400 solutions. Under Celia's leadership, the success of the Invent business led AltaML to the achievement of Deloitte Fast 50 i

Senior Manager

DELOITTE CANADA

Oct 2016 - Feb 2020 (3 years 5 months)

Senior leader in the Technology Strategy & Architecture practice, leading IM/IT strategy and technology transformation programs.
Key highlights:
- Co-led Enterprise Architecture practice for Deloitte Canada
- Managed the City of Edmonton SAP Ariba eProcurement cloud transformation
- Program Manager and Lead Architect for the Government of Alberta IMT Sectors 2019-2021 Roadmaps
- Lead Architect for the Alberta Cannabis launch program
- Led the development of the Alberta AI Business Plan
- Program Manager and Lead Architect for the Government of Alberta Cloud Policy and Cloud Broker design

Lead Architect, Alberta Infrastructure Transformation Roadmap

Government of Alberta

Apr 2016 - Oct 2016 (7 months)

Senior member of the Transformation Roadmap Office. Contracted by the Alberta Infrastructure Ministry to lead and manage information technology solution architecture planning, design, and delivery for the programs of the Transformation Roadmap Portfolio - Business Transformation (Project Portfolio Management and Asset Lifecycle Management), Information Management (Data Governance, Data Warehouse and Analytics), and Application Portfolio Optimization.

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Managing Director

Wanderley Consulting Inc

Feb 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 9 months)

Consulting firm specializing in Enterprise and Solution Architecture.

Senior Director Strategic Services and Architecture

Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission

Feb 2014 - Apr 2016 (2 years 3 months)

As a consultant reporting to the CIO and VP Innovation and Technology, was responsible for helping establish a multi-domain architecture practice and acting in the capacity of interim Director of the Strategic Services Branch and as Chief Enterprise Architect. Led, coached and mentored a team of 16 architects and analysts within 4 portfolios - Business Architecture, Technology Architecture, Enterprise Information Management and Digital Presence. Advised the CIO in the areas of Strategic Planning, Road mapping, Enterprise Architecture and Digital Strategy.

Enterprise Solution Architect/Solution Architecture Domain Lead

City of Edmonton

Jan 2013 - Feb 2014 (1 year 2 months)

As Solution Architecture Domain Lead, provided guidance and leadership to a team of 18 solution architects. Lead Solution Architect on multi-million, multi-year Parking Management and Fines Replacement projects. Enterprise Architect for the Sustainable Development Department, member of the Sustainable Development Business Solutions Steering Committee.

Lead Business Analyst/Product Owner

City of Edmonton

Feb 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year)

Knowledge Management and Portal stream lead in the multi-year, multi-million dollar transformational project "Current Planning Future State".

Senior Technical Architect

NAIT

Aug 2004 - Feb 2012 (7 years 7 months)

Lead technical architect in the areas of messaging, web and portal.

Solutions and Management Consultant

Redman Technologies Inc

Jan 2003 - Jan 2008 (5 years 1 month)

Reviewed existing product line and provided architectural advice on roadmap for future versions.

Senior Systems Analyst/Product Owner

Government of Alberta

Jan 2003 - Jan 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Alberta Community Development Ministry. Senior analyst in the implementation of a COTS system for the museums and art foundations in Alberta (HeRMIS project).

Professor

Unibratec

Aug 2002 - Jun 2003 (11 months)

Developed, delivered curriculum and assessed student learning.

Solutions Architect

RNP

Apr 2000 - Jul 2002 (2 years 4 months)

Application and data architect on the Human Resources Management solution custom development.

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Web Systems Team Lead

TRT Pernambuco

Apr 1998 - Aug 2003 (5 years 5 months)

Intranet/Internet Development and Support Team Lead. Technical architect and project lead on open source migration projects (email and authentication).

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Professor

ASPER University

Aug 1997 - Dec 1997 (5 months)

Developed, delivered curriculum and assessed student learning.

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Systems Analyst

TELPA Telecommunications

Apr 1997 - Feb 1998 (11 months)

Technical analyst on the Financial Data Mart business intelligence project.

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