Hiro Ferreira is a product-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience at Google, currently driving Product for Google Search where he launched Search’s first user-facing LLM applications and built the platform to distill large models for Search-scale performance. He has led cross-functional, global teams to ship scaled GenAI features, integrate first-party data into AI Overviews, and accelerate Gemini adoption from zero to hundreds of developers in months. Earlier work includes leading micromobility product expansion for Google Maps—delivering multi-fold growth in usage, partners, and city coverage—and roles in ads engineering and customer solutions. With an MSc in Telecommunications and a background founding a tech startup and an IoT research lab, he blends deep technical fluency with strong product strategy and partner-building skills. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex portfolios and convert advanced ML research into production-ready, developer-friendly platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Sagrada Família
MsC - Master of Engineering , Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, MsC - Master of Engineering , Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things at Universidade de Brasília
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