Luís Rodrigues
Product Strategy Lead Middle East
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolLuís Rodrigues is a seasoned product and technology leader with over a decade of engineering experience and a track record scaling fintech and tech ventures across emerging markets. Currently Product Strategy Lead for the Middle East at Lab49 and advisor to QuickCheck, he previously served as CPTO where he grew a branchless Nigerian fintech from MVP to 500k+ customers and 4m+ app downloads. He combines hands-on software and DevOps roots (CERN, HBase, Hadoop, Python/Django) with product strategy, team building, and regulatory achievements like PCI DSS L1. Luís has repeatedly launched rapid prototypes to validate acquisition and data strategies, negotiated blockchain-based fundraising deals, and scaled engineering teams across multiple geographies. Based in Dubai, he blends academic rigor from University of Évora with practical startup grit, mentoring cross-functional teams in Product, Tech and Data Science. An engineer at heart, he still draws on low-level systems and data experience to inform pragmatic product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BsC Computer Science, BsC Computer Science at University of Évora
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
plugin9
watchos8
notification8
tvos8
xamarin-ios8
csharp8
xamarin7
payment7
dotnet7
xamarin-forms7
firebase7
adyen7
macos6
swift6
payment-methods6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rodrigueslg/codedu-k8s
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
rodrigueslg/codedu-ci
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 days
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