Taciano Messias Moraes

- Masters in Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley (GPA 3.92/4.0) with a Fulbright Scholarship, selected over Brazil's best students. - Has 14 years’ experience with projects spanning different countries, developing and managing products used by hundreds of thousands of people and giving consultancy/trainings about innovation. - Co-founded and led a successful meditation app with over 136k downloads that generated R$418k in revenue in the first year and a 268% revenue increase from Q1/2020 to Q1/2021. - Managed products/features involving Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, using Scrum, OKRs and KPIs. Experience with Design Thinking, UX, SaaS, Mobile, APIs, Serverless, and AWS. - Holds a Design Sprint nanodegree from Udacity and a course in Design Thinking from Stanford University. - Ran Google Design Sprints in 6 states around Brazil on a nationwide innovation project. - Previously worked as a developer for 7 years (using Java, C#, PHP, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS). - Awarded by TED, among the most active TEDx organizers in the world, with a trip to a world gathering in the Middle East. - Currently a Product Manager at Staircase, an American startup.