Tiago Franco is a founder-led CEO and software engineer with 15+ years building high-quality, user-focused digital products through Imaginary Cloud, which has shipped 300+ projects for clients like NEOM, BNP Paribas, EY and Nokia across Europe, North America and the Middle East. Trained on quality-centric systems at CERN, ESA and the UK MoD, he uniquely blends rigorous engineering discipline with product design sensibilities to deliver reliable yet usable software. He pairs executive leadership and venture experience as a partner at Ganexa with hands-on teaching and authorship on product design and project management. Tiago’s background ranges from VLDB tools for particle physics to large enterprise fintech and healthtech platforms, evidencing comfort with both deep technical complexity and scalable delivery. Based in Lisbon, he continues to scale teams and processes that balance usability, reliability and business impact.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Techshare 7th Edition Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Techshare 7th Edition Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Euronext
Postgraduate Degree Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Postgraduate Degree Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Nova School of Business and Economics
MSc Semantic Web, MSc Semantic Web at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Post-graduation Project Management (PMBoK 4th edition), Post-graduation Project Management (PMBoK 4th edition) at Instituto Bissaya Barreto
Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) at Carnegie Mellon University
ThePowerMBA MBA Business Strategy Entrepreneurship Marketing Innovation & Digital Transformation, ThePowerMBA MBA Business Strategy Entrepreneurship Marketing Innovation & Digital Transformation at thePower
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