Paulo A. - Founder and Product Lead

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Feb 2025 - Present

10 months

Founder and Product Lead

Muvuca Solutions

Lead a climate tech consultancy end to end, coordinating cross-functional teams, owning client strategy and project management, and delivering ESG strategies and AI-first products
Stay hands-on across discovery, analytics, roadmapping, architecture, and QA to safeguard execution quality
Portfolio highlight: Jody, an AI travel planner designed, developed, and launched by me

May 2022 - Nov 2025

3 years 7 months

Senior Product Manager

Plan A

Built and led the Decarbonisation Squad from inception to a high-performing team, shipping Target Setting (including SBTi alignment), an Action Plan with quantified CO₂e reduction potential, and Scenario Modelling to help customers plan, act, and course-correct on emissions
Drove cross-company initiatives like platform localization into three new languages and supported fundraising by framing decarbonisation as a core USP
Remained hands-on with product analytics, stakeholder workshops, and delivery processes

Feb 2020 - Oct 2021

1 year 9 months

Senior Product Manager

Finiata

Owned the end-to-end lifecycle of Credit Decisioning, orchestrating AI/ML models, PSD2 Open Banking data, and risk policies to automate SME credit decisions and cut time-to-funding from weeks to minutes
Partnered with Risk, Finance, Underwriting, and Design to scale decisions
Contributed to discovery, design, and go-to-market of an embedded finance BNPL product while remaining hands-on with data flows, KPIs, and release planning

Jul 2019 - Present

6 years 5 months

Volunteering Program Manager

Sabá Project

Planned and implemented fundraising actions to expand the social interventions of the project

Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

7 months

Product Manager

Delivery Hero

Managed the RPS Core team powering global order transmission, centralizing orchestration across 40+ countries and supporting services that processed roughly two million orders per day
Integrated restaurants, logistics, and customers, balancing roadmap and reliability with deep technical collaboration on APIs, event flows, and partner integrations to sustain scale and uptime

Jan 2017 - May 2019

2 years 5 months

Inbound Product Manager

SAP

Supported design, roadmap, and delivery of APIs and UI for SAP Consumer Insight 365, integrating geospatial, sociodemographic, and behavioral data from carrier partnerships to deliver market intelligence at enterprise scale
Worked closely with engineering and customers to translate insights into actionable cohorts, footfall, and digital footprint analytics
Kept a hands-on grip on data quality and performance

Sep 2015 - Jan 2017

1 year 5 months

API Development Leader

SAP

Led a distributed engineering team across multiple countries to design, build, and operate Consumer Insight 365 APIs
Instituted delivery and quality practices that scaled data access for global clients

Oct 2014 - Sep 2015

1 year

Software Engineer

SAP

Developed data-intensive backend services in Java and databases (SAP HANA, Sybase IQ) for Consumer Insight 365
Contributed to market insights features and high-volume ETL pipelines

Jun 2013 - May 2014

1 year

Computer Lab Technician

University of São Paulo

Maintained networks and institutional information systems to support labs

Jan 2013 - Dec 2014

2 years

Web Developer

Freelance

Delivered mass email marketing software and professional websites for healthcare clients as a full-stack LAMP developer using frameworks like CakePHP and Yii
Owned discovery, build, and launch phases

Jan 2013 - Feb 2014

1 year 2 months

Volunteering as Coordinator for the Global Internship Program

AIESEC

Promoted exchange programs and partnerships with IT companies to fund social work

Jan 2012 - Feb 2012

2 months

Remote

Volunteer

Brazilian Ministry of Defense Rondon Project

Planned and executed social interventions in a low-income and remote community

Jul 2011 - Dec 2012

1 year 6 months

Web Developer

Leadmedia Publishing

Built front- and back-end for a price and coupon aggregator powering mass email marketing
Ran early A/B tests to lift engagement before scaling buscadescontos.com.br and blackfriday.com.br

Summary

I'm a founder, product manager, and computer scientist with an MBA and 15 years of experience in the SaaS industry.

For the past four years, I've been deeply immersed in the AI and sustainability spaces, and now I'm focused on creating planet-friendly products and strategies.

I'm passionate about sustainability, AI solving problems, and coordinating people around common objectives.