Summary
Paulo Black is a hands-on engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and scaling data and software teams across adtech and programmatic platforms. Currently VP of Engineering at MNTN after a rapid internal promotion, he has led engineering and data organizations at Digilant, Goodway Group, and Homes.com, combining platform-level thinking with day-to-day delivery. Trained as a physicist at William & Mary, he brings a quantitative mindset to system design, reliability, and metrics-driven decision making. Paulo blends people leadership with deep technical ownership—maintaining open-source work like Preen Data while driving cross-functional alignment. Known for moving quickly from senior engineer to executive roles, he prioritizes shipping quality systems that translate complex data into actionable product value. Off GitHub he jokes about the crowd of programmers, but his career shows consistent impact scaling teams and data infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Physics, Bachelor of Science Physics at William & Mary
Portuguese, French, Spanish