Thiago Ribeiro

Overview

29 years around startups; now investing in climate. Previously an operator for 9 years before investing. Backed 17 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Amazon and iFood. Most at home with energy and venture capital.

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Experience

1. General Partner

   Mar 2025 - Present
   Bluepeak Capital · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
2. Director of Engineering

   Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
   Amazon · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Shipped 6 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 14 a week to 4.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
   iFood · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Shipped 24 launches on the Android team without a rollback.
   • Moved 61% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Software Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Mar 2020
   Banco do Brasil · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 779ms to 109ms.
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 38% in two quarters.
5. Frontend Engineer

   Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
   PagSeguro · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 12 a week to 2.

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Education

1. ITAM

   Licenciatura, Economics
   1993 - 1997