Summary
Luis Mizutani is a product leader with 15+ years designing and scaling digital payment and checkout products across travel, aviation and large enterprise clients, currently leading checkout and payments at Thoughtworks for a major European travel player. He combines deep agile and lean coaching experience with hands-on program delivery, having driven multi-market payment launches, eliminated technical debt for two-year incident-free operations, and increased account margins by +80% through operational redesign. A strong developer-to-product background, he excels at aligning engineering, finance and executive stakeholders to create measurable business outcomes—evidenced by $6M+ ancillary revenue in six months and rapid market rollouts that cut delivery time from 16 to 2 weeks. He’s also a seasoned people developer and instructor who’s built onboarding flows to scale 30+ hires into 10+ teams and delivered high-NPS delivery management training. Based in Barcelona, he pairs an engineering degree and an MSc in Global Innovation Management with a pragmatic, data-informed approach to product vision and team culture.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Global Innovation Management, Master of Science - MS Global Innovation Management at Aalborg University
Certificate III Business Administration, Certificate III Business Administration at Alpha beta college australia
Master of Science - MS Global Innovation Management, Master of Science - MS Global Innovation Management at University of Strathclyde
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Industrial Process Production, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Industrial Process Production at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
High school, High school at Colégio Farroupilha
English, Portuguese, Spanish