People. Technology. Business.
Head of Engineering · 10+ years · Generative AI and agents in the engineering lifecycle
I’m João Souza Moura. I bring technical depth and business perspective together to turn complex challenges into clear direction, strong teams and real outcomes.
Experience shaped at
01 / Impact
Different contexts. The same commitment: moving engineering and the business forward, together.
80+.
engineering professionals
Leading an engineering organization across more than 15 concurrent projects, connecting structure, people and strategy.
Direct management of 3 project managers and 4 tech leads, with indirect responsibility for over 80 professionals. Dedicated squads, structured career development and generative AI adoption across the engineering lifecycle.
Organization design · AI
80%+.
reduction in billing time
Engineering and product in service of operations: payments, finance and logistics for a B2B marketplace.
Leading the Operations Engineering and Product team, automating accounting, tax and financial processes. Architecture, budgeting and vendor negotiations brought technical decisions closer to business efficiency.
Operational efficiency · Product
−90%.
in infrastructure costs
Modernizing digital channels and migrating to the cloud, with a 78% reduction in time to production.
From senior engineering to leading a 6-person back-end team. Modernizing digital channels and migrating to the cloud, with a 90% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 78% reduction in time to production.
Critical systems · Modernization
Millions.
of daily calculations in pricing
Critical real-time pricing and trading systems, with millions of daily calculations.
Software engineering in pricing, from January 2019 to January 2020. Critical real-time trading systems, with millions of daily calculations.
Critical systems · Pricing
02 / AI in the cycle
Adoption in engineering, an open-source tool and hands-on work with agents.
Loomi · 2025—2026
Generative AI adoption across the engineering lifecycle, while leading an organization of over 80 professionals and more than 15 concurrent projects.
Open source
A tool that puts context and technical decisions at the center of AI-assisted development. Because the reasoning behind the code needs to stay, too.
Explore the projectHands-on
I explore new ways of building software with Grok Bot, Cursor and Cloud Agents. Hands-on experimentation shapes how I think about AI and the future of engineering.
03 / Perspective
I started in critical financial systems. I brought that depth into leadership, because good decisions require both technical understanding and attention to people.
Understand the problem, make trade-offs explicit and give the team a direction that makes sense.
Create the conditions for good people to make good decisions, without depending on a single voice.
Connect architecture, quality and AI to real problems. Technology needs to move the business forward.
04 / Journey
A journey through critical systems, digital products and engineering organizations. Always close to the people doing the work.
Full résumé ↗Engineering, organization & AI
Direct management of 3 project managers and 4 tech leads, with indirect responsibility for over 80 professionals. Dedicated squads, structured career development and generative AI adoption across the engineering lifecycle.
B2B marketplace & operations
Leading the Operations Engineering and Product team, automating accounting, tax and financial processes. Architecture, budgeting and vendor negotiations brought technical decisions closer to business efficiency.
Data platform & global teams
Leading two squads of 15 professionals in building a scalable data platform. Technical roadmap, governance and collaboration with teams in the US and EMEA.
Creative intelligence & global product
Leading the 8-person Creative Intelligence Squad. Product-domain restructuring, system modernization and career development in the company’s only Brazil-based engineering team.
Mortgages & new business
Building and leading a multidisciplinary squad of 6. Partnering with Product, Design, Architecture and Data from discovery to MVP launch, with customer satisfaction measured at an NPS above 80.
Critical systems & modernization
From senior engineering to leading a 6-person back-end team. Modernizing digital channels and migrating to the cloud, with a 90% reduction in infrastructure costs and a 78% reduction in time to production.
Financial markets & platforms
Engineering for middle and back-office operations, system modernization and integration APIs. Technical point of contact for Research.
The foundation: reliability & scale
From an infrastructure internship to software engineering in pricing systems, digital channels and securities custody. In pricing, real-time trading systems with millions of daily calculations.
Education & executive learning
2024—2025
Postgraduate studies in Management
2024
Credential of Readiness · CORe
2018
Organizations, Innovation, and Technology · Course
2014—2019
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
05 / In motion
Reflections on what happens as engineering organizations grow, and the decisions that make a difference along the way.
Read on SubstackHands-on / AI & agents
I take part in a private SpaceX community, in technical exchange with developers.
The next chapter
With generative AI and agents at the center of the engineering lifecycle. Let’s talk.