At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Brazil based CEO’ operating in the Developer Tools space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Gabriel Engel
Founder & CEO of Rocket.Chat
Founder at Rocket.Chat
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About Rocket.Chat: Rocket.Chat is a platform that improves internal and external communication within a controlled and secure environment.
Davi Macêdo
Founder and CEO of Back4app
I am an entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience. During my entire career, I was in the head of a Brazilian software house that developed hundreds of applications for startups and enterprises, including the biggest airlines in the country. We have also worked as serial entrepreneurs and we have co-founded a total of 8 software based companies. My passion is web development and my mission is to turn the web development always faster and better for all developers around the world. That’s why we started back{4}app, an open source backend-as-a-service platform designed to attend the untargeted specific needs of the web developers. We help the web developers to create high quality backend spending minimum effort, saving time and money.
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About Back4app, GTAC Solutions: Back4app is a low-code backend to build modern apps
George Guimarães
CEO of SourceLevel
George has 15+ years of experience in Software Development, Leadership, Business Development, and Digital Products. He’s an engineer by formation, an idea promoter by nature.
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About Plataformatec, SourceLevel: SourceLevel provides metrics and insights from data and offers data and analytics solutions for engineering teams.
Otavio Yamanaka
CEO and Co-founder of Confirm8
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About Confirm8, e-lemento: Confirm8 is a Web platform with mobile application that solves the problem of maintenance companies.
Otavio Yamanaka
CEO and Co-founder of Confirm8
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About Confirm8, e-lemento: Confirm8 is a Web platform with mobile application that solves the problem of maintenance companies.

Jose A. Rodrigues
Founder and CEO of ScrumHalf
https://br.linkedin.com/in/zerneto
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About ScrumHalf: ScrumHalf is a Brazilian startup, providing web-based tools that coordinate its users’ agile projects.