--- title: Allan Batista - CTO & Engineering Leader | Data & AI description: Full professional profile of Allan Batista, a software engineer and engineering leader; Founder & CTO at ComDado. canonical: https://allanbatista.com.br/en/ language: en --- # Allan Batista **Founder & CTO at ComDado · Engineering leader** I build data and AI products, and the engineering teams behind them. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/allanbatista](https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanbatista/) - GitHub: [github.com/allanbatista](https://github.com/allanbatista) - Website: [allanbatista.com.br](https://allanbatista.com.br/) - Resume (PDF): [allanbatista.com.br/allan-batista-cv-en.pdf](https://allanbatista.com.br/allan-batista-cv-en.pdf) ## Summary Allan Batista is a software engineer and engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience in software, data, and artificial intelligence. He is Founder & CTO at ComDado and has led engineering and data science teams at VTEX, Newtail, and Americanas, building e-commerce, marketplace, retail media, and machine learning platforms at scale. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ## How I can help - **Build and grow engineering teams**: hiring, autonomy with ownership, and engineer development. - **Architect and scale platforms**: high-volume, low-latency distributed systems for e-commerce, data, and retail media. - **Ship AI and machine learning to production**: NLP, computer vision, and agents applied to operational decisions. - **Connect technology to business outcomes**: technical strategy built alongside product and operations. ## How I lead - **Autonomy with ownership.** Teams grow when they have context, ownership, and end-to-end responsibility. - **Engineer growth.** I develop people through real challenges, direct feedback, and a commitment to technical excellence. - **Technology in service of the business.** Architecture, quality, and innovation measured by the impact they create for operations and customers. ## Skills - Engineering leadership: team building and management, hiring, engineer development, technical strategy - Architecture: distributed systems, high scale, low latency, data platforms - AI & machine learning: NLP, computer vision, multimodal models, AI agents - Business domains: e-commerce, marketplaces, retail media, B2B SaaS - Stack: Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Google Cloud, big data and streaming (Apache Beam), CI/CD ## Experience ### ComDado · Founder & CTO April 2026 – present · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil I founded ComDado, an AI-native platform that monitors an operation's vital signs, such as revenue, stockouts, margin, inventory, and receivables, and turns deviations into alerts with context, a likely hypothesis, and a next action. - I lead product, architecture, engineering, data integrations, and AI agents, from technical strategy to production code. - I design the platform to connect the sources a company already has (ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, databases, and BI) and detect deviations in near real time. ### VTEX · Software Engineering Manager January 2025 – April 2026 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Led high-performance engineering teams (15 engineers) through scalability and architecture challenges in digital commerce. - Developed engineers through autonomy, ownership, and a commitment to technical excellence. - Built resilient systems that drive business impact, innovation, and code quality. ### Newtail · Software Engineering Manager June 2021 – January 2025 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Led the 8-person engineering team behind the retail media platform's big data solutions, expanding processing capacity. - Drove the creation of machine learning models over unstructured text data. - Delivered highly scalable, low-latency software focused on performance and user experience. ### americanas s.a. · Data Scientist July 2019 – June 2021 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Recruited, hired, and trained a high-performance, multidisciplinary data science team (3 people). - Built a multimodal product classification model combining NLP and computer vision. - Specialized the team in machine learning for unstructured data, focusing on NLP and computer vision. ### americanas s.a. · Data Engineer September 2018 – June 2019 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Designed and implemented the big data solution that came to handle all data for Americanas Ads (retail media). - Built scalable systems for collecting, storing, and distributing large volumes of data. ### americanas s.a. · Senior Software Engineer September 2015 – September 2018 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Led the integration with Amazon Marketplace in Brazil, broadening seller access. - Developed the applications that integrated sellers with the country's leading marketplaces. - Maintained a fulfillment service that managed marketplace service requests. ### Jockey Club Brasileiro · Full Stack Engineer March 2014 – September 2015 · Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Developed and maintained tools, hotsites, and e-mail campaigns for marketing initiatives. - Used Ruby, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and JavaScript to deliver robust solutions. ### Sirius Interativa · Frontend Developer July 2013 – March 2014 · Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Developed and maintained responsive websites with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. ### Sociedade Comercial e Importadora Hermes S.A. · Frontend Developer February 2012 – July 2013 · Barra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Developed web applications to improve the purchasing journey, focused on usability. ### Grupo TCI · Support Analyst February 2010 – January 2012 ## Education - Instituto Infnet · Lato Sensu graduate program, MBA in Big Data (2018–2019) - Centro Universitário UniCarioca · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (2011–2018) ## Certifications - Building Resilient Streaming Systems on Google Cloud Platform - Apache Beam | A Hands-On Course to Build Big Data Pipelines - Data Science Foundations: Data Engineering - Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure - Statistics Foundations: 1 ## Publications - Flower Image Classification: Applying Pre-Trained Convolutional Neural Network Models ## Languages - Portuguese: native - English: professional working proficiency