David Sb is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering organizations across fintech, social media, and enterprise SaaS. He grew Vórtx from early stage to a market-leading fintech platform—scaling ARR fourfold, AUM sevenfold, leading Series B funding, multiple M&A and launching regulated tokenization—while turning a 3-person team into a 60-strong engineering and product organization. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he led NLP and information-retrieval efforts at Scup/Sprinklr and has a history of open-source and early AI experimentation (including GPT-3 and AWS ML initiatives). Today he splits time between a master’s researching complex/virtual societies at USP and quietly building an AI+fintech startup in stealth, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and operator grit. A founding member of Confraria Tech, he helps convene 1,000+ CTOs and tech leaders in Brazil, amplifying his influence beyond any single company. Notably, his background spans global engineering contexts—from Tokyo and Los Angeles to São Paulo—bringing practical distributed-systems and product-first sensibilities to high-impact problems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduation, Computer Science, Post-Graduation, Computer Science at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
Master's degree, Modeling Complex Systems, Master's degree, Modeling Complex Systems at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Business English, Business English at Stanton School of English
Executive Education, Leadership and People Management, Executive Education, Leadership and People Management at Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidade São Marcos
Executive Education, Leading Strategic Growth and Change (Strategy and Innovation), Executive Education, Leading Strategic Growth and Change (Strategy and Innovation) at Columbia Business School
NYC Campus, Digital Product Management, NYC Campus, Digital Product Management at Product School
Short Course, SFI Innovation and Invention, Short Course, SFI Innovation and Invention at Santa Fe Institute
Master, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
Innovation & Design Thinking, Innovation & Design Thinking at ESPM
Contributions:34 reviews, 186 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 11 months
herbs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.