Pedro A. Lima

Pedro A.
Lima

Miami, USA

Product professional passionate about tech and financial innovation, currently building Nubank’s U.S. National Bank Charter. Away from the office, I enjoy riding road bikes, hiking mountains and tinkering with devices.

Portrait of Pedro Lima smiling in a dark navy shirt

Blog

Some of my writing (originals in pt-br, AI translation available)

About

You’ll be able to talk to me about these for hours:

Places

  • NOW

    Miami

    Moved here on my own. Liking it, but it’s too flat and hot. Excited for all the travelling I’m doing around the US.

  • BORN & RAISED

    São Paulo

    I love it and hate it. Wouldn’t live anywhere else in Brazil at my current moment in time.

  • 1ST TIME LIVING ABROAD

    Mexico City

    Similar to São Paulo in many ways. Beautiful parks, squares and gardens. World-class museums. Great people.

Travel

  • 2026 · ROAD

    Gran Fondo Asheville

  • 2025 · TRIP

    Itacaré

  • 2025 · TREK

    Lençóis Maranhenses

  • 2025 · ROAD

    L’Étape Campos do Jordão

  • 2025 · ROAD

    L’Étape Cunha

  • 2024 · TREK

    Itatiaia

Tinkering

  • 2020 – 2026

    Homelab

    Owning my digital stuff with a NAS

  • 2026

    Hermano

    Building my AI agents with Hermes

  • 2023 – 2026

    Lemon Brain

    I love Markdown.

Entertainment

  • MUSIC

    Brasilidades

    Bethânia, Caetano, João Gilberto, Jorge Ben Jor, Paulinho da Viola.

  • PODCASTS

    Tech, politics and health

    Hard Fork, Vergecast, Foro de Teresina, Xadrez Verbal, Huberman Lab.

  • MOVIES & TV

    Sci-fi, drama, Brazilian

    Interstellar, Inception, O Agente Secreto, Severance, The Bear, This Is Us, Game of Thrones.

At work

  • 2026 – NOW

    Nubank — U.S. Market · Staff Product Operations

    🇺🇸 Miami, USA

    Leading the end-to-end build of Nubank’s U.S. National Bank Charter.

  • 2024 – 2025

    Nubank — Global Crypto · Product Operations

    🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

    Custody Squad Lead, rollout of On-Chain Transfers in Brazil, scaled the Crypto Custody Platform for internationalization and built the foundations for Staking.

  • 2022

    Nubank — Mexico Market · Public Policy

    🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico

    Worked on approval of Nu’s SOFIPO license by the CNBV and building Nubank’s relationship with the Brazilian embassy.

  • 2019 – 2023

    Nubank — Brazil Market · Public Policy

    🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

    Pix’s regulatory definitions and implementation, enabling Nubank’s success with Pix by preventing regulatory issues. Worked on instant-payments and open-banking foundations in Bacen and association working groups.

  • 2016 – 2019

    Internships — Law Student

    🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

    São Paulo Public Court, Madrona Advogados, InternetLab, Mundie Advogados, Basement/Kria.

  • 2015 – 2018

    Freelance — Web Designer

    🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

    Private consultants and the Associação Brasileira de Direito Tributário (ABDT).

Read the full CV

Featured post

Professional amateur

0 KM50 KM106.71750 M1000 M737 M
DISTANCE
106.7 km
ELEVATION GAIN
2,181 m
ELAPSED TIME
5:33

Do hard things, Casey Neistat said. So I went and did my longest climb ever. You must enjoy suffering, at least a little bit. You’ll be thinking about the life choices that led you to be climbing a mountain on a road bike under midday sun. But the descents and views are worth every drip of sweat.

Reflection on Amador Profissional. Stats on Strava.