Paulo Hecht
Co-Founder at ztgrowth
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPaulo Hecht is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building user-centered web, mobile, and game products from São Paulo. As a serial founder and product leader, he has steered startups through acquisition and helped scale teams in roles from CTO to Head of Products, most recently co-founding ztgrowth. He blends lean, data-driven growth strategies with hands-on full‑stack development, shipping features and systems end-to-end. His background spans accelerator-backed startups and academic research (visiting researcher at UBC’s HCT lab), reflecting a mix of practical product instincts and curiosity-driven exploration. Comfortable switching between game engines, mobile stacks and backend services, he has a track record of turning prototypes into acquisitions and product-led growth. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who leverages both technical depth and entrepreneurial grit to move ideas into measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer Engineering, Engineer, Computer Engineering at UFSCar - Alumni
Github Skills (38)
swift10
ios9
objective-c9
macos9
cocoapods8
mongodb8
xcode8
npm8
nodejs8
realtime7
javascript7
build-system7
react7
carthage7
reactive-programming6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thehecht/workshop_firebase_opensanca
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
opensanca/jobs-sanca
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes in 1 day
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