Ricardo Parro
About Ricardo Parro
Ricardo Parro is the CEO/CTO of Trifork Portugal and serves as Chief Product and Engineering Officer at DeepStream Technologies. He has extensive experience in technology leadership roles across various companies in Europe and Brazil.
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Ricardo Parro currently holds the position of CEO/CTO at Trifork Portugal.
Current Roles
Ricardo Parro is currently engaged in multiple executive roles. He serves as the Chief Product and Engineering Officer and a Board Director/Member at DeepStream Technologies in London, England, United Kingdom since 2022. He is also the CEO/CTO of Trifork Portugal, located in Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal since 2022.
Previous Experience
Ricardo Parro has extensive experience in various executive and technical roles. He was the Chief Technology Officer at Tokapi in Lisbon, Portugal, from 2022 to 2023. He held the position of CTO at Superb and served as a Board Member from 2019 to 2021 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ricardo was Director Of Engineering at Tradeshift from 2016 to 2019, and CTO at Maguru from 2015 to 2016, both located in the Copenhagen Area. He also worked as CTO at TaCerto.com and Printi in São Paulo, Brazil, from 2014 to 2015 and 2011 to 2013, respectively. His early career included roles as a Senior Software Engineer Contract for Self Employed in London from 2010 to 2012 and as a Software Engineer at Wonga from 2007 to 2009.
Education and Expertise
Ricardo Parro studied at Instituto Superior Técnico from 2000 to 2007, where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science Engineering. His educational background has been foundational to his extensive career in technology leadership and engineering roles.
Notable Achievements
During his tenure as Director of Engineering at Tradeshift, Ricardo Parro played a key role in scaling the company's valuation from 150 million to 1.1 billion dollars. He also successfully led Printi from its MVP stage to a successful exit through acquisition by Vista Print. At Wonga, he contributed to the company's growth from MVP stage to achieving unicorn status.