Summary
Tiago Simões is a London-based technology leader and co-founder with a decade of experience building product-led fintech and payments platforms. He combines people-first leadership with deep hands-on engineering—scaling teams from the earliest hires to hundreds while delivering merchant-facing products, mobile apps, and cloud-native microservices. At Teya he drove cross-functional improvements that cut merchant onboarding from 28 days to under one day, led merchant acceptance and customer operations platforms, and helped integrate teams through M&A. His background spans blockchain R&D, product ownership for regulated financial instruments, and building operational tooling that bridges compliance, sales, and support. Known for blending software, economics, and a focus on freedom, he brings practical orchestration of people, process, and technology to fast-growing startups.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Ensino Médio, Estudos Gerais, Ensino Médio, Estudos Gerais at Centro Educacional Espaço Integral
English, Portuguese, Spanish