M&A → 10-year founder → Block. I've built, scaled and shipped Bitcoin & payments products 0→1

ex-Block (Square · Cash App · Bitkey) · ex-IB M&A (Banco ABC) · Insper · Stanford Ignite

Experience Education
Currently open to: Payments / Crypto BizOpsProduct StrategyStrategy & OpsBusiness Development

São Paulo, Brazil · Brazilian & EU citizen · PT (native), EN (fluent), ES (working)

Background

  1. Block

    2023 - May 2026
    1. Finance & Strategy · Bitcoin & stablecoin products

      2024-2026

      Square · Cash App · Bitkey. Contributed to Square's Lightning Bitcoin payments - now live to 4M+ merchants.

    2. Product Manager, Square AI

      2023-2024

      Led product strategy and roadmap for Square AI (alpha phase). Brought 10 years of SMB experience to the design of cash-flow forecasting and predictive insights for sellers.

  2. Meu Mundo Fit - Co-founder & Managing Director

    2014-2023

    Scaled two D2C businesses 0→5,000+ orders/mo with a team of 15; owned payments, growth & ops; integrated Bitcoin at checkout (2020) - where I learned product strategy is worthless without operational excellence.

  3. Banco ABC Brasil - Investment Banking · M&A

    2010-2012

    Financial modeling, valuation, due diligence.

  4. Education

    Insper BBA Stanford Ignite Harvard CS50

What I'm building

Currently building bitsARK Labs - open data infrastructure for Brazil's crypto-fiat market (FX, exchange & stablecoin data, public API). See what we're building

Expertise

Product & BizOps Strategy
Product strategyBusiness operationsAI product strategyMarket expansionCommercial negotiationCross-functional (product × eng)
Payments & Crypto Rails
PixStablecoinsBitcoinCard railsPSPsCheckoutFiat & crypto on-rampsBitcoin L2 (Lightning & Liquid)
Brazil & LATAM Market
Brazilian crypto-fiat marketUSD/BRL spread & FX analysisStablecoin flowsRegulatory landscape awareness
Finance & Modeling
Financial modeling & scenario analysisData analytics & querying (SQL)Forecasting, KPIs & exec reportingValuationPython

Beyond work: when I'm not building (or going deeper down the Bitcoin rabbit hole), you'll find me with my family or on the tennis court.