Renato Teixeira

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Partner at Sandstone Growth | ex-Santander

Sandstone Growth
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · BRT (UTC-3)
8+ years experience
ITAM
English, Portuguese
Investing
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Overview

Partner at Sandstone Growth, backing healthcare companies. Previously an operator for 9 years before investing. Before that: Santander and Clip.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in web frontends
  • Questions about web frontends
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  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
biotechregulationventure capitalhealthtech
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into seed healthcare in Africa

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Web frontends, AI applications
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
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Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 3 weeks.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazilbiotechhealthtechregulation
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Experience

  1. Partner
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Sandstone Growth · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Reduced cloud spend on web by 24% in two quarters.
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Wrote the healthtech service that now handles 48 million requests a day.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
    Santander · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Moved 65% of web traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the biotech service that now handles 54 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
    Clip · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 368ms to 153ms.
  4. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
    BBVA México · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Led the migration of 18 services to venture capital.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
    iFood · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the web services from 422ms to 87ms.

Projects

Web frontends benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing venture capital and regulation on real workloads.

Open-source biotech toolkit
2022

A small library for web frontends that 726 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. ITAM
    Licenciatura, Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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