Summary
Renan Novas is a Head of AI Customer Engineering at Google Cloud Brazil with over a decade of experience building and scaling AI-powered products and practices across LATAM. He combines an applied mathematics and computer science background with hands-on startup experience—having co-founded three AI-focused ventures—to bridge research, product design, and go-to-market execution. At Google he leads technical teams accelerating customers' generative AI journeys and shapes regional strategy, drawing on prior senior AI roles at Microsoft where he drove 100+ AI opportunities and partner enablement. Renan is equally fluent in the technical details (architecture, data science methodology, responsible AI) and the commercial levers (monetization, team building, partner ecosystems) needed to operationalize AI. He has delivered solutions across diverse verticals from public safety to agribusiness and even sports video streaming, demonstrating a rare ability to translate complex models into industry impact. Based in São Paulo, he focuses on ethically driven, productized AI that moves organizations from experimentation to sustained growth.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Ciências da Computação Tecnologia em Tecnologia da Informação/Sistemas da Informação, Mestrado em Ciências da Computação Tecnologia em Tecnologia da Informação/Sistemas da Informação at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish