Vinícius Kienen has been part of the first technical team for ventures across Ireland, Thailand, and Brazil — building teams from zero, architecting backend systems from scratch, and shipping products that scale. Most recently as Head of Innovation at a Bangkok-based startup, he led a team from 0 to 30+ people and built a Norwegian real estate portal that disrupted a market monopoly, with AI embedded from the first roadmaps through to post-launch — virtual redecoration, image classification, data prediction, and more. Before that: 8 years in Dublin, there from day one, scaling a startup to 20+ devs and then leading the team as the company became profitable. Earlier still: delivering software for brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Unilever; and global mobile enterprise software at Nokia Siemens Networks.
what matters about all of this: bridging the gap between strategy and practical execution. Knowing when to move fast and when to prepare the architecture to scale.
that's the new paradigm — AI acts as a senior technical advisor on any subject. But converting ideas into business? That still takes humans at the wheel.
- Monthly users, from zero
- 0 → 4M
monthly users, from zero
- Years shipping software
- 25+
years shipping software
- People led, Bangkok
- 30+
people led, Bangkok