Summary
Simon Fan is a technology and innovation director based in São Paulo with over a decade of experience building digital products for public interest, government and civil society organizations. As Diretor de Tecnologia e Inovação at ORI:ORO he blends design thinking and participatory innovation with hands-on engineering to lead interdisciplinary teams from discovery to cloud-native delivery. He is a full‑stack practitioner comfortable in React, Node.js, MongoDB/Postgres and containerized deployments (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP), and has repeatedly translated complex social impact needs into pragmatic technical architectures. A former co‑founder of a cloud IDE startup and ex‑CTO of an incubated innovation team, he pairs product strategy and usability research with operational experience shipping platforms. Unusually for a tech leader, he also studies philosophy and economics at USP, a background that informs his systems-level thinking about technology and public value.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Bandeirantes
Economics, Economics at Universidade de São Paulo / USP
University of São Paulo
English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese