Ricardo Gil

Software Development Manager at Mercado Livre Brasil - "Hiring talent to democratize the commerce, money and payments in Latin America"

Greater Campinas

About

20+ years of experience in IT Industry - development, implementation, training, project and people management and helping people and my teams achieve their best. I worked in many projects - of all flavours - throughout my career, making the difference in each of them with my tech and leading skills. Also, I have great international and entrepreneurship experience being CTO of 3 different startups and counselor of few others. Specialties: Project Management Architecture Entrepreneurship Cloud / IOT / Mobile Implementation, Training and Architecture Career

Experience

  • Software Development Manager at Mercado Livre Brasil
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • IBM (Full-time · 4 yrs 3 mos)
    • Lead System Architect
      Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Begin 2020 I got transferred to an internal area responsible to implement Servicenow tool in order to support multiple operations of the internal IBM employees. I'm currently the Lead System Architect, with my team we are responsible to keep the whole program on track with regards to the platform usage, definitions and management of the best practices, aligned with the vendor. Half of my activities are currently more linked to definitions and implementation of the strategy of our whole team where I participate actively on both strategic and operational level.

    • Iteration Manager
      Jan 2018 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Iteration Manager and tech lead of a multidisciplinary squad. My main roles within this position were linked to the team setup and leadership and also IT architect. I was also tech leader for the development the of solutions aimed to support monitoring of key indicators related to Servers and Application monitoring and executive dashboards.

    • Cloud & Cognitive Solutions Architect
      Feb 2017 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr

      Member of an Agile Squad that was responsible for the solution, architecture and development of Cognitive Solutions for the Brazilian Market using last IBM Watson APIs, Bluemix and Machine learning.

  • Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at YouPlugy
    Oct 2013 - May 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    I led, built and constructed all the architecture and IT Infrastructure for the Youplugy startup. The core business was built following IOT principles, cloud and APIs and I was the only responsible by the definition of the cloud hosting and selection of the plans that best fit the company growth considering costs and performance. The usage of the most recent and modern technologies was key for the rapid development needed in the different phases of the projects.

  • IBM (8 yrs 11 mos)
    • Project Manager
      Apr 2013 - Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • People and Service Delivery Manager
      Nov 2010 - Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      My main responsibility on this role was leading career and technical skills development and fulfillment of the members that were under my structure as a second line manager. I implemented several methods to follow their achievements and to be able to provide them the best support, becoming reference for other managers. I was also the lead of the Web sector of my business unit, which was called Web Competence area. The area was represented by all the employees that had Web skills like Java, .NET, Web Applications, Javascript, Xml, etc, in a total of more than 200 resources.

    • Sr IT Specialist / Architect
      Jan 2007 - Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • System Analyst at CPqD
    May 2002 - Jan 2007 · 4 yrs 9 mos