Jose Duarte
CTO - Picpay Card And Insurance at PicPay
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolJose Duarte is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native financial products, currently serving as CTO for PicPay Card and Insurance in São Paulo. He leads a 200+ engineer organization responsible for debit, credit, prepaid cards and insurance products, overseeing engineering, SRE, security, DBAs, agile coaching, and IT strategy across AWS-based microservices primarily in Java and native mobile. His background blends hands-on engineering—from ATM and mobile app development to blockchain integrations and React Native platforms—with senior management skills in budgeting, KPIs/OKRs, and vendor optimization. He’s also an educator, teaching mobile development and developer experience at graduate programs, which keeps his technical practice aligned with industry best practices. Notably, his career spans product-first roles at Banco do Brasil, a Silicon Valley lab cofounder, and startup experience in multimedia and IoT, reflecting a rare mix of enterprise-scale delivery and entrepreneurial product invention.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated, Control and automation engineering, Graduated, Control and automation engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategic IT Management, GPA: 3.79/4.00, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategic IT Management, GPA: 3.79/4.00 at Fundação Getulio Vargas / FGVMaster of Science, Information Technology - Mobility, GPA: 3.81/4, Master of Science, Information Technology - Mobility, GPA: 3.81/4 at Carnegie Mellon UniversityGraduated, Mechatronics Engineering, Graduated, Mechatronics Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (200)
testing10
bots10
crawler10
javascript10
react-native-contacts10
angular10
react-native-component10
cross-platform10
vue10
android10
mobile10
svelte10
ios10
react-native10
webpack10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pompompompom/MeetAPenguin
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:48 pushes in 1 month
oximer/netflix-react-native
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 4 days
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