Vitor Pelizza is a Director of Engineering based in London with 11 years of experience building and scaling cross-continental product teams and delivery pipelines. A founder-turned-senior leader, he grew Kanoah from a startup into an acquisition target and has since led the evolution of TM4J/Zephyr Scale through two subsequent acquisitions, driving product, infrastructure migrations and security initiatives. He combines hands-on engineering roots with people-first management—coaching managers, running 1:1s, and fostering a generative culture that emphasizes automation, metrics and continuous delivery. Comfortable representing engineering with partners like Atlassian, he balances strategic direction with tactical delivery across distributed teams. Outside work he’s an avid tennis player and guitarist, and his entrepreneurial background gives him an uncommon fluency in both product-market fit and technical due diligence.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
MBA, Project Management, MBA, Project Management at Fundação Getulio Vargas
Contributions:4 releases, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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Vitor Pelizza - Director Of Engineering at SmartBear