Summary
Rafael Do Prado Ribeiro is a technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience building web and mobile solutions across industries from banking and insurance to agribusiness and education. He progressed from front-end developer roles into strategic leadership, founding and scaling engineering teams and guiding Gempe through a successful acquisition. At StartSe he has bridged education, AI, and business strategy as Head of Engineering and now CTO, focusing on team enablement, architectural decisions, and product-impacting innovation. His academic work in AI includes publications in Eurasip and NLDB and recognition from the Brazilian Society of Computing, reflecting a rare blend of research and product delivery. Comfortable both coding (especially front-end) and setting technical vision, he proactively adopts cutting-edge technologies to solve practical problems. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he combines entrepreneurial drive with academic rigor to convert audacious ideas into scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Postgraduate Degree, Artificial Intelligence at Federal University of Technology - Parana
Federal University of Technology – Paraná
English, Portuguese