Paulo Melo
Brazil
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Top SchoolPaulo Melo is a seasoned UX and innovation leader from Brazil with over 15 years bridging design, product and business development across startups, research institutes and corporate R&D. He has led multidisciplinary teams (up to 30 people), built new-business units and accelerators that generated multi-million BRL revenues, and currently teaches advanced UX while advising and investing in early-stage ventures. His background combines a professional doctorate in Interaction Design, a master’s in Cognitive Psychology, and hands-on experience shipping AR/VR, wearables and digital products with partners like Samsung, Vale and Albert Einstein. Equally comfortable in the classroom and the boardroom, he translates user research into scalable business models and product strategy. A passionate coder in Rails/Angular with an entrepreneur’s mindset, he balances clean logic with practical commercial outcomes. Notably, he has repeatedly built teams and programs from zero to measurable revenue, demonstrating rare fluency across design, tech and commercialization.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master Cognitive Psychology, Master Cognitive Psychology at Universidade Federal de PernambucoData Leadership for Business Data Science, Data Leadership for Business Data Science at TeraProfessional doctorate Interaction Design, Professional doctorate Interaction Design at Eindhoven University of TechnologyHCI CommunityTransdisciplinary Innovation Program Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Transdisciplinary Innovation Program Innovation and Entrepreneurship at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (38)
ngrx10
health10
reactive10
rxjs10
redux10
controlled10
observables10
state-management10
backend10
angular10
asciidoctor9
jwt-authentication9
typescript9
unidirectional-data-flow9
api9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
peimelo/curso_tour_of_heroes_api
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 29 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
peimelo/curso-tour-of-heroes-frontend
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:36 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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