Renato Chaves is a Staff Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across Brazil and Spain. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with strong people leadership—mentoring peers, sponsoring developers, and shaping engineering culture to align technical work with product discovery. Renato has advanced through senior and staff roles at fast-moving startups like Loft and Glovo, and briefly led an engineering organization, demonstrating an ability to shift between individual contribution and management as needed. He holds a Computer Science degree and an MBA-focused specialization in IT management, giving him both technical depth and business-oriented decision-making skills. Known for driving cross-functional collaboration, he favors pragmatic solutions that deliver measurable impact rather than ivory-tower architectures. A subtle strength is his track record of relocating and adapting to new markets, reflecting resilience and a global mindset in solving real-world problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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