Michel Ank is a founder, CEO, and seasoned technologist who has spent two decades turning developer chops into commercial products and creator-first platforms. As founder of Lastlink he built a payments and digital-products marketplace that helps thousands of creators monetize their work, combining product vision with hands-on engineering. Previously he scaled Bume and held engineering and architecture roles at Vale, giving him deep experience across integration, full-stack development, and product ownership. He codes in C#, TypeScript, React and Vue and brings a DevOps mindset—constantly automating and optimizing how teams ship. Active as an angel investor across multiple Brazilian startups, he blends operator experience with early-stage dealcraft. Fluent in English and grounded in PM and entrepreneurship studies from FGV and Babson, he uniquely bridges technical execution and founder-level strategy.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature General, English Language and Literature General at AWI - International Education Group
MBA Project Management, MBA Project Management at FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Bacharel Information Technology, Bacharel Information Technology at Centro Universitário Presidente Antônio Carlos - UNIPAC
International Entrepreneurship and Managing Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies;, International Entrepreneurship and Managing Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies; at Babson College
Contributions:6 releases, 77 PRs, 67 pushes in 9 months
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