Summary
Rodrigo Senra is a VP of Engineering with 13 years of leadership across data products, platform engineering and research-driven software development, currently heading Loadsmart’s engineering organization. He blends a PhD-level academic background and MIT data science training with hands-on engineering (Python, C, JavaScript, Lua) to earn trust from individual contributors while translating technical work into business narratives for executives. Rodrigo has led multidisciplinary teams of ~40 engineers to build pricing, visibility and data-enablement systems for logistics, and previously drove backend and recommendation projects for major clients at Work & Co and Globo.com. His career uniquely spans industry R&D, teaching, patent review and open-source advocacy, enabling him to move fluidly between experimentation and production at scale. Based in Cary, NC, he emphasizes curiosity, conviviality and competence—often applying semantic technologies and provenance-aware architectures to surface value from complex data.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Resources Management, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Resources Management at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Teacher Computer Science, Teacher Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
Specialization in Data Science, Specialization in Data Science at MIT Professional Education
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese