Paulo Henrique Alves

AI Engineering Leader | Ex-Head of AI | Built Trading Systems for Rico & Vitreo (10M+ users) | NLP, Python, LLMs | MBA AI | Scale-Up Endeavor 2024 | Invested by Google

United States

About

AI Engineering Leader with 20+ years building high-performance systems across fintech, brokerage, and banking. - Architected trading platforms for Rico and Vitreo (Empiricus), serving 10M+ users with real-time, low-latency systems processing millions of daily transactions. - Led AI initiatives at Banco Original, developing NLP-powered sentiment analysis across voice, text, and behavioral data—directly improving customer service metrics. - As CTO at Scaleup (Endeavor Scale-Up, Google-backed), built ML-driven education platforms delivering personalized learning at scale. I bring deep expertise in building production AI systems, scalable architectures, and leading high-performance engineering teams. Passionate about building and scaling technology strategies that align with business goals, fostering innovation, and delivering sustainable value.

Experience

  • Scaleup (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Co-Founder
      Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

      Strategic oversight and board participation. Transitioned from CTO role to focus on company governance, investment strategy, and exploring new technology ventures in AI and scalable systems.

    • CTO
      Jan 2021 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs

  • Head of Artificial Intelligence at Banco Original
    Mar 2019 - Nov 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Recognition of feelings by voice, text and events. For rating and improving service quality. Responsible for the technical management of the channel squads (web, mobile and backoffice). Responsible for the design, testing and implementation of new communication technologies between internal components, code standardization, performance benchmarks, improvement of development processes, project scope validation and definition of demands.

  • Head of Software Development at Empiricus
    Jan 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Architecture for a new brokerage, log systems, transactional messages per queue, API's with microservice, integrations with suppliers, Datalake, structuring and messaging (Email, SMS, Push). Definition of development standards. Modeling and implementation of machine learning algorithms, Creation of ETL processes for extracting transactional bases.

  • Sr. Software Architect at Rico.com.vc
    Sep 2014 - Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Systems architecture of all company, data modeling, web/mobile application development, SOA project development, high performance data handling, ETL process development.

  • Software Architect at CGD
    Oct 2009 - Sep 2014 · 5 yrs

    Requirements gathering, process design, data modeling, web/mobile application development, webservice integrations, programming and integration with Oracle/SQL Server databases