Paulo Carvalho
Chief Executive Officer at Bigdelivery
Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPaulo Carvalho is a CEO and founder with 14 years of engineering and startup experience building profitable, ROI-focused software products across four countries. With a PhD in Robotics and deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, React, cloud platforms and ML-driven systems, he bridges academic rigor and pragmatic product engineering. He has scaled backends to tens of thousands of requests per second, led microservice and DevOps transformations, and driven revenue growth through operational pivots and data-driven logistics decisions. Paulo has repeatedly taken teams from zero to scale—co-founding Avantsoft and StartVC, serving as fCTO for fast-growing eCommerce and marketplace ventures, and advising startups as a board member. He brings unusual breadth: MRI-safe robotics research and patents on one hand, and production SaaS, video pipelines and mobile features for venture-backed products on the other. Outside work he channels problem-solving energy into bouldering and competitive DOTA, reflecting the same strategic persistence he applies to engineering and investing.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Techniques in DNA Based Biotechnology, Techniques in DNA Based Biotechnology at Brown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteNanodegree Deep Reinforcement Learning, Nanodegree Deep Reinforcement Learning at UdacityStartup School Online
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (190)
mapview10
kill10
google-maps10
motion-detection10
properties-file10
background-location10
maps10
react-native10
omniauth10
location-tracking10
react-component9
eager9
payment-integration9
geolocation9
payment9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MPRlab/mono
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:99 commits, 29 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pacarvalho/SixesWild
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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