CTO at Tutory · Brasília, Brazil
18 years building the technology behind how people learn.
I'm Ítalo Queiroz, a CTO who still thinks like an engineer but leads like an executive. I help education and technology companies scale platforms, teams and AI strategy without stopping the product.
Track record
1M+
recurring students a year learning on Tutory
500k+
students certified on the e-learning platform I built for the Senate
−40%
in AWS costs year over year at Tutory
R$2M/mo
in revenue at Onawa, as co-founder and CTO
Expertise
Technology decisions that hold up at scale.
The four fronts I lead day to day, from the roadmap to the infrastructure bill.
Product & AI strategy
Turning business goals into a roadmap and a budget, with AI where it creates real value.
Team building
Hiring, leveling and developing engineers who ship without waiting for every decision.
Platform modernization
Modernizing legacy systems without stopping the product or the roadmap.
Cloud efficiency
Reliable, scalable AWS infrastructure that costs less as the platform grows.
Selected impact
Learning products at national and global scale, and the teams behind them.
Tutory
2026 – now
CTO
Leading engineering for an EdTech platform where teachers and mentors create, sell and scale courses and mentoring programs, and bringing AI into how students learn: summaries, mind maps, practice questions, chat and flashcards generated from lessons.
- 80,000+ daily active students and mentors
- −40% AWS costs year over year
- Legacy modernized without freezing the product
DevSquad · Emerald Publishing
2020 – 2025
Senior engineer & training leader
Three years inside the internal squad of Emerald Publishing, a global academic publisher based in the UK, shipping features on serverless AWS with React and Vue. At DevSquad I also built the trainee program and mentored developers.
- 3 years building for academic publishing in the UK
- −30% deployment time with redesigned CI/CD
- Trainee program built from scratch
Brazilian Senate · ILB
2009 – 2010
E-learning platform
Built the e-learning platform of the Brazilian Legislative Institute, at the Senate: enrollment, exercises, assessments, certificates, forum and chat, designed alongside the pedagogical team.
- 500,000+ students certified in free courses
Ministry of Education · FIES
2011 – 2012
Federal student financing
Worked on the systems behind FIES, Brazil's federal student financing program, through Squadra: student enrollment and data updates, and the calculation and tracking of government disbursements to institutions.
- New modules for regulatory requirements
- PostgreSQL tuned for a fast-growing contract base
Qubika
2025 – 2026
Global clients: sports and fintech
Built with the team a multi-model AI financial assistant for a fintech with 2M+ users, and created from scratch a pre-game checklist platform for NFL stadiums.
- AI agent for 2M+ users
- NFL platform live in 3 months
Onawa
2013 – 2020
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founded an affiliate programs and sales channels company and led its technology from the MVP to a R$2M/month operation, building and managing the development and cloud team.
- R$2M a month in revenue
- −50% infrastructure cost with serverless on AWS
How I lead
What I care about when building technology.
Autonomy with direction
Teams ship with autonomy when context, priorities and the quality bar are clear. My job is to make them clear, then step out of the way.
Evolve without stopping
The business lives in the legacy code. I modernize in increments, with the product running and the roadmap moving.
Technology that teaches
In education, every technical decision answers to the same question: does it help someone learn?
The journey
Education has been the thread all along.
- 2008PreceptorFirst LMS
- 2009Senado Federal500,000+ certified
- 2011FIESMinistry of Education
- 2013OnawaCo-founder & CTO
- 2020DevSquadEmerald Publishing, UK
- 2025QubikaNFL and fintech
- 2026TutoryNowCTO
Advisory & mentoring
For companies at a turning point in technology.
Alongside my role as CTO at Tutory, I advise companies and mentor technology leaders on the decisions where experience shortens the path.
Formats
Technical advisory
Architecture, platform and AI decisions reviewed by someone who has run them in production. Most useful before a rewrite, a migration or a new product line.
Leadership mentoring
For CTOs, heads of engineering and managers: structuring teams, hiring, leveling and running technology as part of the business.
Advisory board
A technology seat at the table for EdTechs and digital businesses defining strategy, budget and roadmap.
Contact
Building a team or a product in education? Let's talk.
Send me a message on LinkedIn with a bit of context and we'll find the right format.