Otavio Ferreira
CTO, PayByPhone at Corpay
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOtavio Ferreira is a Brazilian-Canadian technology and AI executive with over two decades of global experience and a 12-year track record in senior engineering and product leadership roles. He has led large, distributed engineering organizations and mission-critical data services at AWS and steered technology strategy and M&A technical due diligence across emerging markets. As CTO and operator at high-growth Latin American startups and later corporate businesses, he has repeatedly scaled engineering teams, transformed platforms, and helped secure multi‑million dollar funding and exits. Today he advises and invests through Monashees and co-founded Rosewood Due Diligence, bringing a practitioner’s lens to technical assessments that have supported over $2B in transactions. Known for blending deep hands-on engineering with product and business judgment, he pairs academic grounding in software engineering and management training from Harvard with practical experience shipping global systems. A subtle differentiator: he routinely bridges North American cloud-scale operations and Latin American startup ecosystems, making him fluent in both high-scale SaaS and emerging-market product dynamics.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloMaster of Science - MS Software Engineering Semantic Web, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering Semantic Web at USP - Universidade de São PauloCertificate Business Administration and Management General, Certificate Business Administration and Management General at Harvard Business School
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
892reputation
656kreached
58answers
3questions
amazon-web-services
top-5%
Github Skills (70)
messaging10
cloud-computing10
terraform10
aws-serverless10
terraform-module10
amazon-sns10
serverless-applications10
notification10
lambda10
aws-lambda10
aws-sdk10
aws-sam10
amazon10
notification-service10
amazon-web-services10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
otaviofff/restful-grounding
Feb 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
restfulsemantic-websemanticweb-services
aws-samples/aws-sns-samples
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) - Code Samples
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 years 8 months
route53aws-lambdaamazonnotification-servicesimple-notification-service
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