Cadu De Castro Alves
CTO & Founder at Niara
Cascais, Portugal
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Top SchoolCadu De Castro Alves is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building product-led companies and scalable integrations across Europe and Latin America. As CTO & Founder of Niara and former Product Manager at Hygraph, he blends hands-on engineering with product strategy to solve growth and integration challenges for global platforms. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver payment systems, customer service integrations, anti-spam solutions, and WordPress plugins used in multiple countries, demonstrating strength in end-to-end delivery and operational metrics. A serial entrepreneur, Cadu co-founded and scaled startups, ran a pioneering coworking network in Brazil, and repeatedly turned customer insights into viable SaaS and marketplace products. He is fluent in Agile delivery, CI/CD, and data-driven decision making, with a track record of launching features across dozens of markets in compressed timelines. Based in Cascais, Portugal, he combines pragmatic engineering leadership with a knack for finding product-market fit in complex ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
637reputation
15kreached
47answers
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Github Skills (118)
apollo-server10
tailwindui10
component-library10
hygraph10
gridsome10
sapper10
daisyui10
graphcms10
tailwindcss10
ui-framework10
svelte10
css10
postcss10
ui-design10
tailwind10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
castroalves/castroalves
Jul 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
castroalves/gigantespt
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
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