What drives my work

In the payments market, I believe speed is the real competitive advantage. That shapes how I lead: fast decisions, short cycles and technology that removes friction instead of adding process.

I care about building teams that think pragmatically — that decide with the information at hand and adjust course along the way.

Today

I lead the technology area at PagueVeloz by Serasa. The team structure was designed by many hands, together with product leadership and the technology leads, and it has three parts:

• Core line — handles the payment itself: acquiring, Pix, boleto, banking and the regulatory side. This is where money actually moves, so these teams need depth and stability.
• Customer line — handles how the customer reaches the payment: app and channels, devices (card machines, POS and SmartPOS) and payment links. What matters here is the experience and the speed to test, learn and adjust.
• Platform teams — support both lines: infrastructure, DevEx (the developer experience) and data.

I tell how we got to this design, and why we split core from customer, in the article Team Topologies in practice.

What I build outside work

I still have my hands on the code, now in projects of my own, built in my spare time with the help of artificial intelligence. They are all on the Projects page.

About this site

On the blog, I write about software engineering, technical leadership and what I learn building technology for payments. On the fghisi podcast (in Portuguese), I talk through books, articles and lessons. The rest of the site is where I put into practice what I write.