Herval Freire
CTO at Telepatia AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHerval Freire is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient systems across startups and Fortune 500s from San Francisco. He combines hands-on engineering—having designed high-throughput generation services and multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms—with a track record of turning struggling products profitable and shipping ambitious pivots on time and under budget. As a founder and early engineer he scaled consumer-facing AI/ML products to hundreds of thousands of users and architected infrastructure that handled thousands of generations per second, while at companies like Twitter, Meta and WeWork he saved millions through performance optimizations and platform consolidation. Known for building and coaching high-performing, psychologically safe teams, he favors people-centric leadership and pragmatic observability over rigid processes. Unusually, he blends deep systems experience (from embedded JavaEE and telecom-era mobile work to modern cloud-native and generative-AI stacks) with a persistent maker mindset—“building a lot of stuff for fun and profit.”
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BsC Informatics, BsC Informatics at CEFET-PBBsC Informatics, BsC Informatics at Universidade Federal da Paraíba
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German
Github Skills (113)
notebook10
gradio10
deep-learning10
image-generation10
yahoo10
ui-automation10
blackbox-testing10
data-driven10
javascript10
nosql10
automation-ui10
sql10
ai10
database10
spark10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
herval/creative_machines
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
herval/herval.github.io
Jun 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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