Heading up the Product and Engineering team at gini, Ricardo has spent more than a decade honing his expertise in building software products at scale. With a background in aerospace engineering, he’s always been obsessed with figuring out how things work, then optimising them. He has led a rich and varied career, building complex software solutions in a wide range of fields, including personal finance management, information security, credit card fraud detection, data centre automation, IoT products, autonomous vehicles and more. His talent lies in creating highly durable applications and APIs that serve millions of requests a minute with zero downtime.