Strategy that becomes commits. Commits that become value.

I orchestrate teams and AI agents to deliver critical software, with proof in every delivery.

I'm Victor Caldeira, 18 years in technology, across payments fintech and e-commerce. What drives me is turning strategy into delivery: more efficient teams, a value-driven roadmap and performance that holds up in production.

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Where I focus my experience

Four areas I specialized in, each tied to where I have applied it.

  • Development pipeline with AI. I built an agentic squad organized around business domains, with Spec-Driven Development: more productivity and more quality in every delivery, with AI at the center of the process. Greenn Pagamentos · 2025–2026 see the pipeline ↗
  • CTO as a Service. Budget, roadmap and strategic planning, team decomposition and structuring, business and engineering KPIs. Greenn Pagamentos · 2025–2026
    ANYMARKET · 2021–2024
    DB1 · 2016–2021     see the operation ↗
  • Operational efficiency. Identifying bottlenecks and waste across development teams, infrastructure and FinOps, tools and processes, with AI at the center of the analysis. Greenn Pagamentos · 2025–2026
    ANYMARKET · 2021–2024     see the infrastructure ↗
  • M&A integration. Four M&As in my career, three of them leading the technology front, including post-acquisition integration. ANYMARKET · 2023–2024 · Uruguay and Chile
    Greenn Pagamentos · 2025–2026 · xGROW     see the challenges ↗

Cases that shaped my career

Four deliveries told the way I work: diagnosis, build and proof. I talk about engineering and people, not business numbers.

A pipeline of people + agents

Greenn Pagamentos · 2025–2026 · CTO · spec-driven development and AI agents

AI agents with separate roles: one diagnoses, one builds and one tries to break it. Every round leaves the evidence ready.

  • +250% delivery throughput
  • +60% productivity with AI
  • −60% rework
How a request moves through the pipeline: every gate is a person saying yes.
  1. Request: a human opens it.
  2. AI qualifies it and suggests a priority.
  3. A human approves the prioritization.
  4. Business spec and prototype, generated by an agent in a standardized way.
  5. Human approval with stakeholders.
  6. A product engineer picks it up and writes the technical spec.
  7. Technical approval with an architect or a peer tech lead.
  8. Develops with an agent.
  9. Reviews with an agent.
  10. Tests with an agent.
  11. A human reviews the tested criteria and the business rules.
  12. A peer or lead reviews the code, with an agent and as a human.
  13. Atomic PRs from development to merge.
  14. CI/CD triggers.
  15. Monitors.
  16. Next delivery: the cycle starts again.

People, borders and acquisitions

ANYMARKET · 2023–2024 · CTO · and three M&As across my career

Leading more than a hundred people in a mission-critical SaaS, 24/7, operating in seven countries and integrating what was acquired.

  • 100+ people led
  • 7 countries in Latin America
  • 3 M&As, 2 international
  • OKRs
  • budget
  • architecture
  • IDP and 1:1s
  • post-acquisition integration
  • xGROW
Seven countries of operation; from Uruguay, Chile and xGROW, three acquisitions converge into a single team.
  1. Operations in seven countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Brazil.
  2. Three M&As leading the technology front, with post-acquisition integration; two international, Uruguay and Chile.
  3. The most recent: the xGROW integration, at Greenn Pagamentos.

Security the auditor signs off on

Three companies · 2016–2026 · cybersecurity and information security

Certifications proven to an outside auditor and, at the fintech, detection and response from the inside: I answered for technology in the PCI DSS audit and led the SOC and MDR implementation.

Four seals at three companies, from 2016 to 2026: three certifications and one security program.
  1. CMMI level 3, DB1, 2016 to 2021.
  2. ISO 27001, ANYMARKET, 2021 to 2024.
  3. PCI DSS, Greenn Pagamentos, 2025 to 2026: I answered for the technology area in the certification audit.
  4. SOC (Security Operations Center) and MDR (Managed Detection and Response), Greenn Pagamentos, 2025 to 2026: I led the implementation.

More cloud, smaller bill

Three companies · 2016–2026 · budget and infrastructure cost

Managing the technology budget and making infrastructure cost less at three companies, including a migration from an in-house datacenter to 100% cloud.

Managing a R$ 15 M annual budget and reducing infrastructure cost at three companies, from 2016 to 2026.
  1. Technology budget of R$ 15 million per year under management.
  2. EIVE ERP, DB1, 2016 to 2021: migration from the in-house datacenter to 100% cloud and 60% lower infrastructure cost.
  3. ANYMARKET, 2021 to 2024: 40% lower infrastructure cost.
  4. Greenn Pagamentos, 2025 to 2026: 50% lower infrastructure cost.

Eighteen years, five companies

It started with code. Leadership came later, and the code came back, now with agents.

2025 to present

CTO · Greenn Pagamentos

Payments fintech. Spec-driven development and AI agents in the pipeline. PCI DSS, SOC and MDR. Third M&A leading technology.

2024 to 2025

Group Product Manager · TOTVS

2021 to 2024

CTO · ANYMARKET

Mission-critical SaaS, 24/7, more than 110 people, operations in 7 Latin American countries.

2016 to 2021

Portfolio Manager, then Head of Engineering · DB1

Critical accounts in the software unit and, later, an ERP with more than 50 people. Three units, more than 30 teams.

2010 to 2016

Full-stack developer, then tech lead · Elotech

Lead time, cycle time, throughput and technical debt measured before they became a trend. CMMI level 2.

Experience with

  • SDD
  • Harness Engineering
  • Context Engineering
  • DDD
  • Clean Architecture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Hexagonal Architecture
  • Unit Tests
  • OKR
  • KPI
  • People Management
  • Management 3.0
  • Microservices
  • Application Lifecycle Management
  • Team Topologies
  • Claude Code
  • skills
  • n8n
  • Product Management
  • Roadmap Build
  • PCI DSS
  • ISO 27001
  • SOC and MDR
  • Retail
  • Fintech
  • Security
  • Relational Databases
  • No SQL
  • Application Performance
  • Finops
  • Redis
  • Docker and containers
  • CI / CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Datadog and observability
  • Kubernetes
  • Scrum
  • CMMI
  • Tech Leader
  • PHP / Java / Node
  • PostgreSQL
  • Apache
  • SonarQube

Drag to spin.

Tools

Claude Code with skills and subagents day to day; n8n for automations as code; GitHub as the source of truth. Laravel, Vue and Nuxt in the product; Pest and Vitest for the proof.

Leadership background

DDD and Team Topologies to design teams and contexts. PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC and MDR lived through in the audit, not just read about. Four M&As, three leading the technology front.

People who worked with me

Quando você se encontrar nos maiores desafios e atua com esse cara, você sempre terá alguém com quem contar ao seu lado, na trincheira, mão na massa.

CEO of ANYMARKET, direct manager

Logra liderar desde una posición de sociedad, formando un fuerte lazo con su equipo que garantiza que, cuando las dificultades llegan, sea posible atravesarlas con éxito.

Founder, former direct report at ANYMARKET

Victor é um profissional de missão, é só alinhar e deixar na mão dele.

CEO of DB1 Global Software, direct manager

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Shall we talk?

I speak Portuguese, English and Spanish. I enjoy exchanging ideas about technology, payments, leadership and AI.

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