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Product Engineer / AI Specialist

Complex operations,
engineered into
software that scales.

Twenty-five years at the seam between business and code — building the crawlers, platforms and AI systems behind billion-real credit, legal and growth operations, and leading the cross-functional teams that run them.

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São Paulo, Brazil  ·  Open to US & Canada relocation — EB-2 NIW & Express Entry (STEM), filed Jul 2026
Thiago Rios Braz
R$1.5B
in FIDC operations sourced via the Legal CRM
R$5B+
consigned-credit operations processed, over 6 years
400K+
court cases crawled across Brazil's judiciary
180
people in a company grown from 15, teams built end-to-end
2,000+
secure field tablets deployed for Santander
4 / 2
companies founded, two exits
About

Business and code, on the same schematic.

I'm a product engineer who has spent 25 years at the seam between operations and software. I've written the crawlers, built the platforms, and led the cross-functional teams — engineering, marketing, legal and operations, up to 15 people at a time — that turn high-volume, messy processes into products companies run their revenue on.

My stack runs from IBM DB2 and Informix through SQL Server and PostgreSQL, from classic ASP through Node, React, Python and C#/.NET — and, now, vector databases and retrieval-augmented systems. But the through-line has always been the same: adapt fast, ship the thing operations actually need, and put the right team around it.

Currently finishing degrees in Information Systems (Mackenzie) and Financial Technology (Saint Paul), and relocating to North America to keep building at a larger scale.

Selected work

Three platforms, measured in billions.

2000 — present
01

Legal CRM

A crawler and case-intelligence platform that tracked 400,000+ court processes across Brazil's judiciary, sourcing R$1.5B in operations for FIDCs.

RAGWeb crawlersLegal tech
02

Credit CRM

An end-to-end origination pipeline for consigned credit, serving 5 national banks and processing R$5B+ in operations over six years.

FintechPlatformOperations
03

Santander HandBank

A tablet program for signing credit contracts in the field: the app, plus 2,000+ Samsung tablets with fingerprint readers and security hardware. Led over two years.

MobileSecurityProgram lead
Experience

A career built on shipping.

FOUNDER
Own ventures

Four companies founded · two exits

Built and led ventures across legal, credit and growth tech — two didn't make it, two ended in exits. Every one taught the discipline of putting product, revenue and team on the same page.

5 YEARS
MatriBank

From a 15-person crawler team to a 180-person company

Joined to build a crawler; left to found my own company with the platform delivered, R$900M+ in operations run, and tech, marketing and operations teams — plus tech-backed commercial and legal functions — all in place.

6 YEARS
Credit platform

The consigned-credit operations platform

POP Promotora, BestCred, HandBank and CredFácil franchises all ran their credit operations on the origination pipeline I built and maintained.

EARLY CAREER
Banking & telecom

Developer → Tech Lead

Telecom-audit projects for Banespa, Santander, Bradesco, Unibanco and Atento — where I grew from developer to tech lead and learned to build software that large operations depend on.

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Writing

Notes from the build.

Engineering

What 400,000 court cases taught me about crawlers that don't break

Draft · 8 min read AI

RAG for legal operations: retrieval that lawyers actually trust

Draft · 11 min read Leadership

Scaling a team from 15 to 180 without losing the product

Draft · 6 min read
Speaking

Talks on fintech, AI and scaling teams.

Available for talks and panels on legal & credit tech, retrieval-augmented AI, and growing cross-functional engineering teams. Recent and upcoming sessions listed below.

Coming soon on my YouTube channel Upcoming 2026
Contact

Let's build something
at scale.

Currently exploring senior product-engineering and AI roles across the US, Canada, and exploring Europe. The fastest way to reach me is email.

thiago@riosbraz.com.br linkedin.com/in/trbraz github.com/thiagoriosbraz