Summary
Caio Calado is a conversational UX leader and community builder with 12 years of experience shaping chatbots, voice assistants and multimodal experiences from São Paulo. As Co-Creator and Editor of the State of Conversation Design and an ecosystem strategist at Blip, he blends hands-on product and design work with community-driven research and advocacy. He co-founded Arara School and organizes Bots Brasil meetups to train and connect practitioners across Brazil, and hosts the Há 18 Meses podcast to amplify Brazilian tech voices. His background spans product design, growth and developer enablement at companies including Take, Botsociety and Microsoft Reactor, giving him a rare mix of design, program management and growth skills. Obsessed with human-first AI, he writes, teaches and curates global insights—trying to be the mentor he wished he had when starting out.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.175, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.175 at California State University-Chico
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
English, Portuguese