Summary
Flavio Smirne is a senior technology leader with 13 years of experience specializing in anti-fraud systems across retail, banking, travel, airlines and ticketing, currently driving implementations as Senior Director at Appriss Retail. He combines deep domain expertise in fraud detection with a practical obsession for automation and optimization, turning complex risk problems into simple, repeatable solutions guided by Occam’s razor. Previously he led e-commerce fraud at GameStop and productized fraud solutions at Accertify, pairing hands-on .NET enthusiasm with strategic delivery. A former founder and engineering manager with roots in computer and civil engineering from UIUC and USP, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with enterprise-scale execution. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who seeks partners passionate about building products that tangibly improve lives.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Civil Engineering, B.S. Civil Engineering at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Portuguese, Spanish