Paulo Ahagon is an experienced technology executive based in São Paulo with over 16 years in software engineering and more than two decades of involvement in IT leadership. As CTO and co‑founder of Xerpa and later Head of Engineering at Grupo SBF, he built scalable e‑commerce and HR SaaS platforms that drove measurable business outcomes—like doubling e‑commerce share and a 53.5% sales spike after major platform migrations. He excels at modernizing legacy systems, designing migration strategies that preserve operations, and creating cross‑functional teams that deliver high availability and improved NPS. Currently serving as Diretor de Tecnologia at Dafiti, he combines product-minded engineering, operational rigor, and talent development to enable rapid integration of new business units without linear cost growth. A pragmatic builder who also led a successful salary‑advance product adoption at Xerpa, he blends hands‑on architecture with strategic leadership to turn technical modernization into commercial advantage.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
OTP Labs is a demo application built with Elixir and OTP to show how to integrate Distributed Elixir on Kubernetes with Horde and LibCluster.
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