Summary
Marcelo Malcher is a seasoned technology executive and Chief Technology Officer based in São Paulo, with two decades of experience building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations across education, retail, and consumer platforms. He has a track record of turning early-stage products into scalable, cloud-native systems—most notably growing Zé Delivery’s engineering organization from 8 to over 200 engineers while enabling massive order growth. Marcelo blends hands-on architecture and data-platform expertise with pragmatic product and delivery leadership, having led cross-functional teams in microservices, real-time data pipelines, and CI/CD on AWS. He prioritizes culture, mentorship, and psychological safety, believing attitude and trust are as important as technical skill in driving outcomes. At Pravaler he is focused on using technology as a growth enabler to broaden access to education in Brazil, pairing social impact with rigorous engineering practices. His background spans research-driven problem solving (PhD work on real-time event detection) through to enterprise product delivery, reflecting both deep technical curiosity and operational discipline.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Pará
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese, Spanish