I am a product engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building complex, data-driven platforms at scale. I specialize in AI-powered products, API-first architectures, and enterprise-grade systems, working across frontend, backend, and data domains. I've led initiatives generating €100M+ in revenue and built mission-critical products used by large organizations. I currently focus on building and scaling product development for YC-backed startups and Series A+ companies. I’ve steered technical initiatives across AI-driven platforms, crafted scalable data pipelines, and owned end-to-end product delivery—from architecture to shipping features with Next.js and TypeScript or Python. My approach blends hands-on engineering leadership with strategic execution to accelerate growth and create measurable impact for customers and businesses alike.

Bernardo Oliveira

I am a product engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building complex, data-driven platforms at scale. I specialize in AI-powered products, API-first architectures, and enterprise-grade systems, working across frontend, backend, and data domains. I've led initiatives generating €100M+ in revenue and built mission-critical products used by large organizations. I currently focus on building and scaling product development for YC-backed startups and Series A+ companies. I’ve steered technical initiatives across AI-driven platforms, crafted scalable data pipelines, and owned end-to-end product delivery—from architecture to shipping features with Next.js and TypeScript or Python. My approach blends hands-on engineering leadership with strategic execution to accelerate growth and create measurable impact for customers and businesses alike.

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I am a product engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building complex, data-driven platforms at scale. I specialize in AI-powered products, API-first architectures, and enterprise-grade systems, working across frontend, backend, and data domains. I’ve led initiatives generating €100M+ in revenue and built mission-critical products used by large organizations. I currently focus on building and scaling product development for YC-backed startups and Series A+ companies.

I’ve steered technical initiatives across AI-driven platforms, crafted scalable data pipelines, and owned end-to-end product delivery—from architecture to shipping features with Next.js and TypeScript or Python. My approach blends hands-on engineering leadership with strategic execution to accelerate growth and create measurable impact for customers and businesses alike.

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Work Experience

Founder & Principal Product Engineer at Olive Hill
July 1, 2022 - Present
Product & engineering leadership for high-growth, AI-powered platforms. Own critical product domains across AI, frontend and backend for an AI-driven compliance and analysis platform. Designed and built complex RAG pipelines and LLM analysis workflows; implemented a platform-wide conversational agent for data retrieval, multi-step reasoning, analysis and user interaction; took ownership of the entire frontend codebase, re-designing customer journeys and end-to-end features using Next.js and TypeScript.
Founding Engineer at Cardamon
September 1, 2025 - Present
Founding engineer owning critical product domains across AI, frontend and backend for an AI-driven compliance and analysis platform. Built core automated pipelines and data workflows, established platform-wide tool integrations, and contributed to architecture for scale; improved deal velocity via automated AI coding workflows.
VP Solutions Engineering at Natech Banking
May 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024
Architected core banking transformations, defined technical differentiation to align with strategic investors; enabled €15M+ enterprise deals; redesigned customer journeys and delivered embedded finance capabilities.
Principal Solutions Engineer at Vodeno
June 1, 2021 - July 31, 2022
Led embedded finance solutions for tier-1 prospects (Revolut, KPN, Rakuten) and 8 Gulf banks; delivered cross-border payments, card issuing and payments platform capabilities across EEA markets; built solution architecture and cross-border tech strategy.
Senior Solutions Engineer at Temenos
June 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021
Banking-as-a-Service platform architecture; embedded finance solutions; led card issuing, payments and cross-border capabilities; supported enterprise sales and integration efforts.
Co-Founder & CEO / CTO at Snowman Labs
August 1, 2012 - July 31, 2014
Mobile-first digital transformation agency; built an engineering team and shipped iOS/Android apps; delivered banking features for multiple financial services clients; achieved 4.7+ App Store ratings; contributed to €40M+ platform revenue; launched the Orange Bank mobile platform as iOS engineer; secured multiple banking partnerships.
Mobile Engineer at MITI & CINQ Technologies
August 1, 2010 - March 31, 2012
Mobile-first digital transformation; developed iOS/Android apps (Objective-C/JavaScript) for financial services clients; delivered first mobile banking features in Brazil and achieved strong delivery efficiency and profitability.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná
January 11, 2030 - January 19, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Other