Summary
Karoline Leite is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in São Paulo with 17+ years in digital products and 11 years in senior engineering leadership, known for scaling teams and building robust quality engineering practices. She currently leads product and technology at Oya Care, applying preventative-care tech to empower women's health while also founding Test Girls, a community that fosters diversity and careers for women in testing and QA. Her background spans rapid-growth consumer platforms like Zé Delivery—where she scaled engineering to ~150 people—and fintech and e‑commerce leaders such as PagSeguro, Creditas and Walmart, with a strong track record of operationalizing testing, automation and reliability at scale. Karoline combines hands-on QA engineering roots with strategic leadership, having implemented company-wide quality frameworks, automation suites and post-mortem processes that reduced incidents and improved predictability. She brings an unusual mix of people-first management (talent development, gender-balanced hiring) and pragmatic technical initiatives (mock servers, end-to-end automation, tooling rollouts) that accelerate delivery without sacrificing stability. Fluent in building communities and engineering culture, she repeatedly turns quality practices into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Information Technology, Técnico Information Technology at Escola Técnica Estadual São Paulo
Tecnólogo Information Technology, Tecnólogo Information Technology at Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Liderança Inovação e Gestão 3.0, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Liderança Inovação e Gestão 3.0 at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English