Ricardo Amorim

Ricardo Amorim

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São Paulo, Brazil
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  • Relay Commerce
    Chief Technology Officer
    Relay Commerce
    Jun 2022 - Mar 2026 (3 years 10 months)
    First CTO of a Shopify-ecosystem SaaS portfolio (Messaging, Retention, Social) serving thousands of e-commerce merchants; reported to the CEO and owned technology across 8 business units.
    • Built the engineering department from scratch, 4 to 25 engineers, while integrating 8 acquired companies, supporting portfolio growth from $1M to $10M ARR.
    • Led responsible adoption of AI and agentic coding (Claude Code) across the org, setting the guidelines that kept an understaffed engineering org productive across 8 products.
    • Led each acquisition’s technical integration, assessing the inherited team and codebase, sequencing hiring and restructuring decisions, and managing the risk and timing of changes to live, revenue-generating pr
  • Relay Commerce
    Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
    Relay Commerce
    Jun 2022 - Mar 2026 (3 years 10 months)
    First CTO of a Shopify-ecosystem SaaS portfolio (Messaging, Retention, Social) serving thousands of e-commerce merchants; reported to the CEO and owned technology across 8 business units.
    • Built the engineering department from scratch, growing it from 4 to 25 engineers, while integrating 8 acquired companies, supporting portfolio growth from $1M to $10M ARR.
    • Led responsible adoption of AI and agentic coding (Claude Code) across the org, setting the guidelines and changing how lean teams ship, upskilling the team through hands-on bootcamps, which was central to keeping an understaffed engineering org productive across 8 products.
    • Partnered with the CEO on product strategy, pressure-testing the technical feasibility of new
  • SureSwift Capital
    Principal Software Engineer
    SureSwift Capital
    May 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 2 months)
    • Promoted to a portfolio-wide role leading a 4-engineer platform team that provided shared infrastructure, tooling, and technical guidance across multiple portfolio companies.
    • Ran technical due diligence on acquisition targets, evaluating codebases, infrastructure, technical debt, and team capability to inform deal decisions.
    • Standardized deployment pipelines, monitoring, and development practices while onboarding and integrating newly acquired companies into the portfolio.
  • SureSwift Capital
    Principal Software Engineer
    SureSwift Capital
    May 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 2 months)
    SaaS holding company acquiring and operating bootstrapped software businesses.
    • Promoted to a portfolio-wide role leading a 4-engineer platform team that provided shared infrastructure, tooling, and technical guidance across multiple portfolio companies.
    • Ran technical due diligence on acquisition targets, evaluating codebases, infrastructure, technical debt, and team capability to inform deal decisions.
    • Standardized deployment pipelines, monitoring, and development practices while onboarding and integrating newly acquired companies into the portfolio.
  • SureSwift Capital
    Lead Software Engineer
    SureSwift Capital
    Mar 2018 - May 2021 (3 years 3 months)
    • Scaled Back in Stock (Shopify app) from $60K to $300K+ MRR with a lean team of 2–4 engineers, keeping infrastructure under 5% of MRR while serving large, well-established e-commerce brands.
    • Migrated a subscription business off custom storefront, billing, and fulfillment systems onto Shopify, cutting engineering dependency so the business could run independently.
  • SureSwift Capital
    Lead Software Engineer
    SureSwift Capital
    Mar 2018 - May 2021 (3 years 3 months)
    • Scaled Back in Stock (Shopify app) from $60K to $300K+ MRR with a lean team of 2–4 engineers, keeping infrastructure under 5% of MRR while serving large, well-established e-commerce brands.
    • Migrated a subscription business off custom storefront, billing, and fulfillment systems onto Shopify, cutting engineering dependency so the business could run independently.
  • Back in Stock
    Lead Software Engineer
    Back in Stock
    Jun 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 10 months)
    First back-in-stock alerts app in the Shopify App Store (2011), founding a category now served by dozens of competitors.
    • Took over the product’s technical operations, freeing the founder to focus on business, and grew it through reliability, performance, and feature work as usage scaled.
    • Built a cost-efficient and scalable infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform), enabling the app to serve large Shopify brands such as Fashion Nova, SKIMS and Funko.
  • Back in Stock
    Lead Software Engineer
    Back in Stock
    Jun 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 10 months)
    First back-in-stock alerts app in the Shopify App Store (2011), founding a category now served by dozens of competitors.
    • Took over the product’s technical operations, freeing the founder to focus on business, and grew it through reliability, performance, and feature work as usage scaled.
    • Built a cost-efficient and scalable infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform), enabling the app to serve large Shopify brands such as Fashion Nova, SKIMS and Funko.
  • m
    Co-Founder and Director of Engineering
    mapaBRASIL
    Jul 2007 - Sep 2015 (8 years 3 months)
    Business-intelligence company providing data extraction, curation, and enrichment on millions of Brazilian businesses and individuals.
    • Founded and scaled the company to a 12-engineer team, designing and building data pipelines that extracted, curated, and organized information on millions of businesses and individuals.
    • Delivered data services to major credit bureaus including Experian and Equifax.
    • Owned full-stack technical operations end-to-end, spanning infrastructure, PostgreSQL/MySQL database design and administration, application development, and Linux systems administration.
  • m
    Director of Engineering
    mapaBRASIL
    Jul 2007 - Sep 2015 (8 years 3 months)
    Business-intelligence company providing data extraction, curation, and enrichment on millions of Brazilian businesses and individuals.
    • Founded and scaled the company to a 12-engineer team, designing and building data pipelines that extracted, curated, and organized information on millions of businesses and individuals.
    • Delivered data services to major credit bureaus including Experian and Equifax.
    • Owned full-stack technical operations end-to-end, spanning infrastructure, PostgreSQL/MySQL database design and administration, application development, and Linux systems administration.
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  • USP Universidade de São Paulo
    Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
    USP Universidade de São Paulo
  • Universidade de São Paulo
    B.S. in Computer Engineering
    Universidade de São Paulo