Francisco·Fernandes

Product Lead
& 2x Founder

Zürich,
Switzerland

Open to SF / Bay Area relocation

Francisco Fernandes

10 years building and deploying products to users and Enterprises.

Highly technical.

  1. 01

    Deep knowledge

    Architecture, APIs, data, infrastructure, AI models, MCP

  2. 02

    Self-taught to code

    Python, Bash, HTML, CSS

  3. 03

    2nd company, computer vision

    2018

  4. 04

    1st company, Machine Learning

    2016

LLM Service
A production LLM service from Miro's GTM Engine - more details below.
MCP
I build MCP servers that run in production.
(bash) IDE ftw
Two friends soldering electronics on a kitchen table
Yes, I did solder microcomputers in my kitchen table at some point :D
Laptop wired to a Raspberry Pi and a relay board on a workbench
Microcomputer programming back in 2018
Computer vision output with bounding boxes detected around jar lids
Computer vision models running on the edge (zero inference costs)
Raspberry Pi and relays wired inside a fridge cabinet
The first production system
NYSE: QSR

Experience scaling software products and businesses globally.

  • Built the entire Forward Deployed function from scratch, serving Enterprise clients.
  • Working with Product to define roadmap across API ecosystem, backend and frontend.
  • From 3 to 31 markets globally.
  • 4th hire in a venture that grew to ~150 people.
  • On the leadership team, actively shaping decisions on team structure, line-of-business strategy and budget allocation.
ARR
$12M
Platform sales
$1B+
Monthly active users
14M+
Markets
31

Latin America

    And working at global software companies, with top EPD and GTM talent.

    Featured by Anthropic The GTM Engine powers Claude across Miro's GTM org. Anthropic interviewed our GTM team on how they run their week with it.
    10 min for Friday project tracking, down from 90+ min Read the story

    Learn more about how I think.

    Miro · GTM Engine

    How we prioritize GTM Engine work at Miro

    Miro · GTM Engine backend

    Why we replaced AI agents with deterministic LLM pipelines for one GTM Engine backend use case

    I post more about my work on LinkedIn Check it out

    Coolest stuff I built (in the AI space).

    Lupa is a niche AI product for land and urban planning analysis. It incorporates all the learnings from past ventures on what not to build. I've used it as a test to push the boundaries of what a product fully built and run by agents can achieve.

    Agentsbuilt

    • The codebase
    • The infrastructure Vercel, Supabase, Railway
    • All media (videos, images, music, copy & guides, speech) Higgsfield, ElevenLabs

    Agentsrun

    • Day-to-day product ticketing
    • The interface with partners for Q&A
    • Proactive bug fixing, merge authorization in lower environments and, upon success, reporting results back with an open PR for Prod deployment
    Open the live site ↗
    Lupa · Behind the scenes

    Learn more about the MCP I designed and deployed in Production

    One more, this time inside Miro.

    Skill Atlas is an experiment we published on Miro's Marketplace: a Miro board turned into an operating surface for AI skills — import them from GitHub, edit together on the canvas, see the logic as a diagram, and let agents flag when a skill drifts from its source of truth. An external-facing product built to gather market intelligence and feed it back into Miro's product.

    This is how I learn.

    My personal and work GitHub repos are private. Much of the work is described and published across this website, so here's the activity instead.

    — contributions in the last year

    github.com/fjf-fernandes →

    Earlier days.

    During my university studies I was heavily involved in outside activities, and mostly disengaged from an overly theoretical, classical teaching of economics.

    Francisco on stage with a microphone, presenting in front of a ShARE slide
    On stage for ShARE, 2015 :)
    1. 01

      Leading a global think tank

      I led the Portuguese chapter of ShARE, a global think tank — sharing knowledge for development and social progress — which has since evolved into Do Well Do Good. That took me to work in China and Macau, flying back to sit exams by year end.

      I ran consulting projects at the time and presented to thousands of people. I still love presenting to this day.

      Also working with, at the time

      • EPFL Switzerland
      • IIT Bombay Mumbai
      • Yunus Centre

      dowelldogood.com ↗

    2. 02

      Building U.DREAM into a national NGO

      I joined the team post-founding to build U.DREAM into a national NGO. U.DREAM focused on fulfilling the non-material dreams of children affected by cancer — from taking a child to meet Cristiano Ronaldo to building a new house for a family to live in with their children.

      It grew into a national NGO with impact well beyond hospitalized children, eventually also helping elderly communities and getting youngsters engaged in giving back to theirs.

      udream.pt ↗ Extensive media coverage ↗

    I've lived in Zürich, Switzerland for the last 6 years.

    I prioritize working in Zürich, Switzerland, but I'm open to relocating to San Francisco / the Bay Area for the right opportunity — if it means working with the top talent in the world to do the best work of my career.

    I care deeply about the work I do, which I see as my craft. Life is a wonderful journey that gives us the opportunity to incrementally improve ourselves.

    I am absolutely ready to work with the best of the best, in the most important time of our history as a species.